Brits warned about SA's 'killer' snakes

This Neal Collins is a bloody idiot. Before writing such crap why not come look what he is writing about first.


Brits warned about SA's 'killer' snakes

The English tabloids continued their unrelenting attack on the World Cup on Monday - with a hissy fit.

The Sun, Britain's best-selling newspaper, went with: "England's South African World Cup base is surrounded by some of the world's deadliest snakes. Killer pythons, spitting cobras, puff adders and black mambas hunt around Bafokeng Sports Campus in Rustenburg."

In another lurid tale calculated to prevent any last-minute fans flying over, it ran the story under the headline: "They think it's all cobra, it hiss now," a corruption of the famous Kenneth Wolstenholme commentary line when England won the 1966 World Cup: "They think it's all over, it is now."
The Sun claims the medical unit at England's base has been stocked with vials of antivenom in case players are bitten. It said pitches would be checked before training sessions and quoted a Dr Keba Mokgethi as saying: "We will tell the team they may encounter snakes."

England arrive at their luxury base near Rustenburg on June 3 and open their campaign against the US in the Bafokeng Royal Sports Palace stadium on June 11. Apparently the base's electric fence stops pythons, but not smaller poisonous species.

The paper said the black mamba had enough venom in a bite to kill two soccer squads.

By Neal Collins

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3102&art_id=vn20100525111223421C329520

The British press suck most of the time.

In Africa we have fast food. If you are not fast you are food.

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