tiger snake in a jar 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
while this is not a real darwin (in that my brother-in-law is still alive and able to reproduce) it certainly fits in the category of honorable mentions.
my brother-in-law, joe, has a farm outside canberra, australia. he is not a city boy, and should have known much better than he did on this particular day.
joe was working on the farm when he found a tiger snake. tiger snakes are extremely venemous.
mistake no. 1 he put his foot on the snake's back and told his daughter to go to get a jar to put the snake in. his daughter, being a female and having more brains, refused, and told her father to kill the snake, either by standing on its head with his other foot, ot with the shovel he was using at the time.
mistake no. 2 joe refused. as the snake repeatedly bit at his boot, he repeated his request for a jar. she eventually figured she was dealing with a total nong who was nto going to do the easy thing and kill the snake and she got a jar.
mistake no. 3 he, while almost being bitten a number of times, got the snake in the jar.
mistake no. 4 he took the jar into the large shed on the property. this shed doubles as a living and storage area.
some time later, his brother-in-law arrived, and joe proudly went to get the snake to show him.
then mistake no. 5 was discovered - joe had left the lid off the jar so the snake could breathe, and guess what, the snake had escaped somewhere in the shed, in theliving area....
everyone left the area and left joe to look for the snake. it was'nt found. probably it had more sense than to try to hang around.
i can send you my sensible brother-in-law's e-mail address if you want to confirm. this. Submitted on 01/20/2003
Submitted by:
lucie davison
Reference:
persoanl story
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