From the Too Timely To Be Real Department, this just in: a 62 year old West Virginia pilot screams “I’m sick of these muddafuggin’ snakes!” right before grabbing a cobra around the thorax and punching it right in the face.
Flying his biplane over Ohio on a breezy summer day, Monty Coles was surprised to discover a four and a half foot snake coiled around the throttle. Luckily, Monty didn’t do what I would do: sissily flap my hands perpendicular to my ears while running around the cockpit in circles and shrieking. Monty is a man of action.
Remembering some sage advice from his flying instructor — “No matter what happens, fly the plane” — what followed, according to Monty, was an epic battle between man and snake, thirty thousand feet in the air in an out of control airplane.
Of course, with Snakes On A Plane coming out this summer and all, we suspect this is viral advertisement at its finest.
Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane [Fox News]
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Considering that cobras aren’t arboral constrictors, I severaly doubt one would be coiled around anything.
On Fox News no less…
I know you were having fun with this one, but you’re playing a bit too loose with the facts.
The plane was a Piper Cherokee, which is not a biplane.
Second, the Piper Cherokee is a small plane, and there really isn’t room to stand up, much less run around the cockpit in circles.
Third, it wasn’t a cobra, which I’m pretty sure isn’t indigenous to North America; rather, it was a black snake.
Although I know the urge to seem like a smarty by correcting any error (even if humorously intentional) is pretty well in-grained into a certain variety of Internet snark, please take note. We know it wasn’t a cobra. We know it wasn’t a biplane. We don’t care. Those words are better.
Snakes on a plane
i heard this guy interviewed on NPR last week; it sounded pretty genuine to me. But i suppose even if it really happened, it’d make sense for the SOAP ad folks to push this into the real news as free publicity.
You tell ‘em Brownlee.
Personally, I aim for funny-crank snark, not whiny-crank snark.
And that’s no Balogne.
Its on fox news so it must be true!
Sounds a bit to out there to be anything but Viral marketing to me, but I think that guy belongs on that list of Real Men on Maddox, right up there with the Captain who killed the 660 lb shark with his bare hands and a knife.
Good Times
a weiner dog named killer
that’s the real story here