We had a spitting cobra in the reptile house and a keeper named Jerry McNeal was taking care of the big cages at the time. He was cleaning the spitting cobra. At that time the cages were a large cage with a door in the back and a pool. And there was a pipe where the drain hole’s on top. That was the overflow pipe for that pool. Well he would unscrew that pipe to drain it, drain it down, screw it back in, fill the pool back up. Well he had just drained it when the phone rang and he went to answer the phone and he may have had to run an errand or something, forgot to put the pipe back in. And when he came back, the cobra was gone.
