How/WHY would you let that kind of snake or ANY snake that close to you that it has a chance of crawling up your 17-ing leg ?!?!
I’m going to be 20 rows away real suddenly even if I’m on the front row watching some cobra snake handling show and one of those bastards even thinks about coming my way.
Sometimes people from highly developed 1st world countries suck at self preservation because of the bubble they live in. There are all sorts of risks that we should just manage as sentient beings that we are protected against because of our litigious society. Often times the protections are good. Often times they make life more expensive for everybody while also lulling us into not paying attention to our environment. People in the US basically give zero thought to the safety of any thrill ride or whatever. We just assume if they are allowed to operate, it's safe (which is usually a good assumption; the kid that got decapitated on the water park ride was decades ago and it's still sort of newsworthy because rides
are virtually always safe in the US). But in the US, if a snake show is letting you handle a snake, you can be pretty confident it's nonvenomous, or has been defanged or whatever. Every potentially slippery surface comes with hand rails and warning signs and sometimes non-skid tape or whatever over it.
Even inherently dangrous acctivities like snow skiing are generally bubble wrapped to the extent possible. Every lip with a significant dropoff or danger below it is either fenced off or signs are up. People can (and do) basically assume that if they are coming up to a lip in a resort area, if there's not a sign or fence there, they can shoot over without worrying too much about what they can't see other than a person (this is not smart, but usually works out ok). We can generally be careless with electricity around water because of GFCIs.
The only significant risk I can think of that we are not shielded from is when we drive and we let people stand right next to an oncoming subway/train at stations and put hte burden on them to not be a dumbass and fall over, although the subway pushing stories show that people still don't fully respect the risk like they should.
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