News of the weird: "51 Poisonous Snakes Found in Bite Victim's Tokyo Condo"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

A Tokyo man was arrested Wednesday after police found as many as 51 poisonous snakes, including cobras with extremely powerful venom, in his condominium near JR Harajuku Station in Shibuya Ward.

The alleged violation of the Law Concerning the Protection and Control of Animals came to light when the suspect called an ambulance July 15 after one of his snakes, a mamba, bit him on the finger.

The man, identified as Nobukazu Kashiwagi, 41, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. Police said they waited until the port worker recovered before arresting him.

The 185-cm-long snake that bit him was an eastern green mamba. According to Michihisa Toriba, director of the Japan Snake Institute of Gunma Prefecture, that species has one of the most powerful venoms in the world.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080828a2.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What's Japanese for

"very stupid man who keeps many extremely venomous snakes as pets"?

[Ptah]

2. From this day forward, Nobukazu Kashiwagi

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. LOL!

If I get bitten by my pet viper, I can say I've just Kashiwagi'd myself.

[Ptah]

6. And 'Nobukazu' means I almost got snakebit.

:thumbsup:

[mike_c]

4. I've known herp collectors with dozens of poisonous species...

...although this guy's collection sounds absolutely world class. Too bad he got bitten by one of the hot ones.

[Monk06]

5. Between Manga and Manbas it's no wonder so few forty year old Japanese men have girlfriends