I'd like to see World Peace and safe Snake Decapitation

[CalMeacham]

Sweetwater, Texas (CNN) -- To win the Miss Snake Charmer beauty pageant requires beauty, grace, talent and a strong stomach. It's probably the only pageant in the country that requires the winner to decapitate and skin a snake.

"Tomorrow I get to skin snakes and chop their heads off, and I am super-excited about it," said Laney Wallace, Miss Snake Charmer 2011.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/12/rattlesnake.roundup/index.html?hpt=Sbin

[tdn]

The winner gets to go home with Indiana Jones.

[Wheelz]

That is one crazy-asp story! Fangs for posting it.

[tdn]

I hope the contestants don't get too rattled.

[blondebear]

If Miss Snake Charmer gets married and then subsequently gets a divorce, does the husband get his diamondback?

[Little Nemo]

They wouldn't try this if Barry White was still alive.

[ugly ripe tomato]

I killed a snake with a sword once. Never knew that kind of stuff could get me into a beauty pageant, though.

(Also I've now got the "Whacking Day" song from the Simpsons stuck in my head.)

[BlackKnight]

"It's probably the only pageant in the country that requires the winner to decapitate and skin a snake."

Probably? That's what's wrong with journalism these days. The writer couldn't be bothered to check if it's the only pageant in the country that requires the winner to decapitate and skin a snake?

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Miss Snake Charmer? I don't know much about charming snakes, but I'd think cutting off their heads would be the wrong way to go about it.


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I like snakes. I like snakes more than some people. Are they sure mass killing is necessary? Even if it is, ugh.