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.
You are their hero bravo kabayan and God bless you.
Well done kabayan????????????✌️But why the employer didn’t call special people to catch the snake?
Tapang at malasakit…….that is the bottom line for our kababayan 🙂
I am.a bit perplexed – why did the employer simply leave for work knowing pretty well there was a spitting cobra in the garden ????? Why did he not call for help ????
YOU are A HERO KABAYAN
GOOD JOB.
kakatakot naman. but kudos kabayan.
kaya lang napansin ko lang sa report, bakit hindi muna tumawag ng assistance yung emplyer bago umalis. or maybe pag dating da work.
paano na lang kng hindi naisip ni kabayan yun.
just saying.
God bless you for your courageous act!
Good job kabayan you deserve a reward????
Salute you kabayan may God bless and protect you always.
I haven’t heard about 3maids in one employer! At wag po kau agad manghusga di nyo nman tlga alam kung anu nangyari..
Pinoy kunam man imbag ta dina binungalan Jay cobra ti pungtot
Good job my fellow OFW .mabuhay ka!
Very devoted to the family but don’t do it alone ask for help might hurt you. G B.
Is there anything new with it? ???? They should be jailed much longer…
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God bless you always
Proud of you kabayan.
Sagittarius A. Canales a good deeds doesn’t expect anything in return…
Baka met pati abono di dumanon jay talon
She deserve a bonus for sure.