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A Zululand woman resorted to spin-drying a black mamba after she saw it inside her washing machine, The Citizen reported on Monday.

"I put the machine on spin dry and waited," Margie Taylor told the publication.

"There was a lot of banging and clonking... when the machine stopped we opened the lid... [and] the snake was suspended over the detergent container, looking dazed and confused, but still alive."

She had first tried to contact her husband David and a local snake catcher, but was unsuccessful.

By the time the spin-dryer had stopped, her husband had arrived home.

He helped unplug the washing machine and take it outside.

The machine lid was opened and the snake was pulled out with a coat hanger.

It was then shot by her son.

The incident happened last week at Taylor's property in Inyoka, about 14km outside Empangeni.

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Fri May 24 16:10:48 SAST 2013 ::

Jun 18, 2012

Shredder

I'd do the same. She should have also put some soap and fabric softener before she spinning the machine
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Jun 18, 2012

Prudence!

I'd probably would have thrown a whole lot of bleach and domestos into the water...screw the washing...just to make sure that the serpent is dead!!!
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Jun 18, 2012

BlackTruth

the place is called "Inyoka", that should say a lot.
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Jun 18, 2012

Indoda

Ooh 4 F#ck sake Sowet@n please give us umgosi not this… the snake was killed then what? Are the police still investigating the shooting any suspect for the killing,,,Please sowie sowie give us news!!
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Jun 18, 2012

1andonlybucs

yho a black mamba is one of the worlds deadliest serpant.. i also think she should have poured a lot of powder soap or the whole box of 2kg SURF... that snake was gonna go blind and drunk.lol
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Jun 18, 2012

m'zaco'

then ke eng mawaza a...nx!
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Jun 18, 2012

imd

so?
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Jun 18, 2012

DjEp

This is crazy how do you shoot a snake? Zululand is worse than Limpopo
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Jun 18, 2012

DJWinner

Sowetan, come on now. This is boring. I myself killed_ a lot of snakes during my headboy days in
KZN and nobody reported about it. Nobody cares. We don't care about people spinning snakes.
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Jun 18, 2012

Mosegamongwe

The snake its been shot, so what?
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