Theif should look before grabbing

[Lisa]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapc...eut/index.html

Sunday, January 5, 2003 Posted: 8:35 PM EST (0135 GMT)

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- An Australian thief got more than he bargained for when he grabbed a bag off a car's passenger seat and found a venomous, red-bellied black snake inside.

A police spokeswoman said the thief stole the canvas bag after yanking open the door of a four-wheel drive at traffic lights in the Sydney inner-city suburb of Redfern late on Saturday.

But the car's driver, snake handler Bradley McDonald, had the last laugh. The bag contained a 1.2 metre (four feet) long snake that he had just snared in a nearby car park.

"It might teach him a lesson. The snake is the innocent party in this," McDonald told reporters.

A bite from a red-bellied black snake, which can grow to up to 2.5 metres long, is very painful and could kill a small child.

[mike7034]

serves him right

too bad he didn't get bit

[hip]

Sweet justice for the criminal I agree with Rev should have had a taste of the medicine (lmao)




Peace


Hip

[Nanashi04]

that almost has two morals - crime doesn't pay *and* look before you leap...

[eyespy]

Maybe it will scare that idiot straight, at least for a little while. One can only hope......

[Alicewave]

Maybe a venemous snake in my car would prevent the theives that have been terrorizing our driveway the past couple months.

[Dom]

lol I love it!