We Floridans love our exotic pets. Sometimes they escape but we're fine with it as long as the tourists don't stop coming. So, in that regard, folks around the world must be happy that Elvis, the eight foot long King Cobra, missing for over a month from a guy's house here in Orlando, has been found.The King Cobra is one of the most deadly snakes in the world with enough neurotoxins to kill an elephant. King Cobra Elvis owned by "Airplane Repo" star, Mike Kennedy, was found by Kennedy's neighbor under her clothes dryer.
One of our best Florida writers, Carl Hiaasen, wrote a story a while back trying to calm us down about the snake, and to especially calm down our potential tourists. His article was titled:
Come on Down, Forget the Big Snake!
In the article he said that you've got a better chance of being carjacked or catching the norovirus than being eaten by the snake. He's right, but those two things happen several times a day down here so it wasn't very reassuring.
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