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05-31-2007, 08:13 AM
Heart op pensioner kills snake
An 80-year-old heart surgery patient leapt from his intensive care bed and used his walking stick to beat a deadly viper to death.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2355950.html?menu=
Miko Vukovic spotted the snake on the floor of the hospital in Ogulin in central Croatia.
The snake is believed to have been brought into the hospital in a giant bunch of flowers where a discarded snake skin was also found by staff. It then made its way into the intensive care ward as it looked for a new place to hide.
Vukovic was with three other cardiology department patients during the night when he noticed the poisonous "vipera berus" snake close to his bed.
He said: "I was fighting for 10 minutes before I managed to kill it with my walking stick. The bugger almost bit me in the leg but then I let it have it right between the eyes."
Hospital officials did not comment the case.
An 80-year-old heart surgery patient leapt from his intensive care bed and used his walking stick to beat a deadly viper to death.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2355950.html?menu=
Miko Vukovic spotted the snake on the floor of the hospital in Ogulin in central Croatia.
The snake is believed to have been brought into the hospital in a giant bunch of flowers where a discarded snake skin was also found by staff. It then made its way into the intensive care ward as it looked for a new place to hide.
Vukovic was with three other cardiology department patients during the night when he noticed the poisonous "vipera berus" snake close to his bed.
He said: "I was fighting for 10 minutes before I managed to kill it with my walking stick. The bugger almost bit me in the leg but then I let it have it right between the eyes."
Hospital officials did not comment the case.