Trouser snake kills Cambodian man

[DBear]

note to the moderators: This is the actual headline used.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=122211

excerpt below:

Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian man who took off his trousers, tied the legs at the bottom and wrangled a 2-metre cobra into them died when it bit him through the fabric, local media reported Monday

Headline of the year
Darwin Award of the year

 

[Swedishguy]

I've read

Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian man who took off his trousers, tied the legs at the bottom and wrangled a 2-metre cobra into them died when it bit him through the fabric, local media reported Monday

a couple of times now, but I still don't understand it.

 

[Elta]

I've read

a couple of times now, but I still don't understand it.

Okay he tied the legs of his shorts together and used them to protect his hands as he wrestled the cobra down - the cobra bite through the shorts and killed him.


It is funny to Americans because sometimes we like to ask girls if they have ever seen a Trouser snake ( Trouser is a lesser used word for shorts)
If the girl says yes you take off your trousers and show her your snake.

Get it?

Hyper educated Asian news people have a tendency to over syntax a sentence when they speak/type - African news reporters are the worse .... sometimes they use grammar that even I have to stop and think about for a minute.

 

[Jawz II]

My trouser snake would've crushed that snake, saving my life once more!

 

[kulade]

^
Yep, I would say about half of all newspaper headlines are made just as good setups for penis jokes.

 

[philippe]

The newspaper reported Kear's last words as being "don't worry - it's nothing a drink can't fix" before he succumbed to the cobra's venom.