A 48-year-old Filipino maid who tried to force a venomous cobra out of her employer’s house in Singapore on Monday, ended up killing the dangerous snake with a broom handle.
Carlos Chua, a 19-year-old full-time national serviceman, was the first member of the family to notice the 50-centimeter-long equatorial spitting cobra that came into their home garden on Monday morning, The New Paper reported.
Chua ordered his family to stay indoors and leashed their 12-year-old beagle dog at a safe spot because the reptile was “acting aggressively” when anything went near it.
But by 8.30am Chua had left for work, and only Mhelyn, the family’s Filipino domestic worker, remained at home.
The maid, who has served the family for 16 years, nervously observed the snake from a distance and saw that it was showing no sign of leaving the home.
Fearing that it could bite her employer when he returned, Mhelyn decided to chase the snake out by wielding a one-meter-long broom handle. However, her action only made the cobra more agitated and it stuck where it was rigidly.
That left her no choice but to repeatedly hit the cobra – until it was dead and had split in two. Then, Mhelyn disposed of the carcass.
According to the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES), the snake was an equatorial spitting cobra, also known as a black spitting cobra.
When threatened, the cobra can spray venom from its fangs over a distance of more than a meter, and that could temporarily blind someone if it hit their eyes.
The venom, which is primarily cytotoxins, could even kill a person if it got into the body’s nervous system through a bite.
# People in Singapore are advised to stay calm if they see a dangerous snake like this, and ring the ACRES hotline for a rescue volunteer on +65 9783 7782.
Why call acres if you can have ate mhelyn to the rescue with her amazing broom,,lol,,,salute to you kabayan,,,
OMG,JUST READING THE ARTICLE MAKES ME NERVOUS BECAUSE I’M REALLY SCARED OF SNAKE…SALUTE TO YOU MY SISTER…YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO KILLED THE COBRA
Bigyan ng Jacket???????????? Salute to you Kabayan nerve of steal is real????????????
salute to our kababayan, sana marami ka pang mapatay na cobra
Thumbs up
Not trying to justify their actions but they’re already paid or paying all the consequences ..So we dont need to add fuel to the fire since the three of them is our fellow countrymen , at ikaw naman Rosefin ,kung maka "katulong ka naman at nilahat mo pa ha ,ikaw yata ang kailangan ng mental check up for sure .Anong klaseng utak meron ka ? Sabagay nga ,hindi lahat ng naka pag -aral edukado at edukada you are the good example seriously . Lets help recognise our own hypocrisy .The better we know ourselves the less we criticize others ☺
Good job kabayan
Wonderfull and brave conduct salute my kababayan
Sagittarius A. Canales your right same as my imployer too
Why dont u ask first before packing thise belongings which is not belongs to all of you??… u just ruin ur life and ur reputation along with our fellows filipinos.. thats is why so many foreign never teust us????????????
u are my hero
Well done kabayan
Jan nila mkkta ang caring nd loyalty nating pilipino
Ipgtanggol natin ang atin mga amo
Lalona kng mbbait cla.
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Good job" you’re brave…
Sagittarius A. Canales kaya nga ung amo ko nga di nkkapreciate yan d uso ditu sa bahay huuuhu
wow great job kabayan.hope we brave like you
Rosefin Van Fyi, we are given psychological test before deployment just like other OFWs. I don’t think it’s fair for you to generalize that all helpers are thieves just because you were a victim.