It seems that a young man was recently found in his parked car, suffering from cardiac arrest. In the investigation of his subsequent death, it was determined, perhaps, that the gentleman had perished as the result of a bite from a venomous cobra. This was largely determined because the young man had other reptiles in the self-same car, there was a snake-style puncture wound on his wrist, and he was known to be the owner of a deadly monocled cobra - which just happened to be missing.
The monocled cobra is the snake you typically identify as the swaying reptile, head flared, round "monocle" pattern on the back of the head, rising from the basket as the Indian Fakir plays his flute. Yep, that's the one.
Just when most of us were pretty certain that we were not going anywhere near that area of Austin ever again, and just hours before animal control officers set out to search the now-closed garden center, a CarMax employee found a deceased cobra on the access road, having encountered a vehicle or two while trying to cross the road. So the police joyfully announced they had a dead cobra and were going to confirm that it was indeed the right snake. Puzzling that, because, as my son pointed out, just how many monocled cobras are there on the loose in Austin?
As it turns out, it is rather difficult to identify cobra venom in the human system, let alone which specific cobra injected it. And the police now say that this was a possible suicide. Really? I'm pretty sure they are talking about the young man, and not the snake, which in a moment of regret and remorse slithered in front of an on-coming vehicle.
There's a lot to like about this town, but please, no more missing snakes.
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