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.
Good job.Bravo
Maid job is not only cleaning or cooking or take care only. This is the proof that we have done all in one job….
You are a hero..kabayan
God bless you!
GOOD JOB …
Brave enough to fight that cobra.God bless you my kabayan mabuhay.ka.
Sagittarius A. Canales yeah u’re right 100%
Well done kabayan
King cobra killed by philippine inday powered by magic broom
Good job kabayan!
I can’t do that…I’m.so scared of it hahahaha..good job kabayan I salute u
Good job Filipina is brave
Baka sabi ni ate wow ulam 😀
Good job 🙂 fearless !!
I hope her employer can appreciate the good things she do..and reward her a vacation.. But most of the Chinese especially my employer doesn’t care wether u do good to them..
I didn’t mention all Chinese are bad.. Because mostly also have a good heart:-)
She’s a hero.
Good job kabayan.:-)
I salute you kabayan. Anybody can be a victim of that snake. Marami ng namamatay sa kagat ng cobra dito sa lugar namin . You deserve a bonus from your employer. God bless and take good care. Your family must be proud of you.
Increase her pay. And give her one month vacation with pay.
They deserve it.
I dont feel pity to three of themthe. How come you do that they three of you is very shameful. Why you do such a horrible thing.
How come you decide by your own .
Its really their plan to steal it. Good for.you 4 weeks is not enough for your crime it must be years.
Wow ,too dangerous for our kababayan .its a venomous cobra..but salute to you.
Well done my faithful brethren!