TROUSER SNAKE

Tourist Dies After Snake Charmer’s Cobra Slithers Inside His Pants

They normally stay around people’s necks.

A 57-year-old German tourist has died in a snake charming show gone wrong, according to reports. The performance in Hurghada, Egypt, in early April was supposed to see audience members hold the snake around their necks and shoulders. But the performer went one step further when he made one beast, thought to be a cobra, slither down the pant leg of a Bavarian tourist. Reports from Germany cited by the Daily Mail suggest that, as it did so, he was bitten by the snake and went into cardiac arrest. Efforts to resuscitate him were carried out, and he was rushed to the hospital, but it was in vain, and he later died. The Mail reports that police in Memmingen are keeping an open mind in their investigation and are not solely focused on the snake charmer, while the toxicology report results are not yet back. The show took place at a hotel in the Red Sea resort town.