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Woman Uses Shovel To Kill Cobra Slithering On Her Patio

Pennsylvania cobra
(Kathy Kehoe via AP)

"I knew what I was doing was dangerous, I'm not a fool," she said in a phone interview on Tuesday. "I just acted. I thought of the kids and other people in this community and I said 'I can't let this thing get away.'"

Her apartment complex in Fairless Hills, about 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia, is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren't sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit.


Wildlife officials say people who spot snakes should call police and let experts handle the situation.

((Police Warn Of Possible Venomous Snake In Macomb County Park))