Chamber snake meets its match

Nhlalwenhle Ngwenya
A notorious a�?chambera�� black mamba has been killed.

Residents in Bulawayoa��s Cowdray park finally killed a black mamba snake that had a tendency of finding itself in toilet chambers.

Before its death, the snake had appeared inside chambers of two houses. Luckily the would-be toilet users escaped unharmed.

Knowledge Charakapa who once came face-to-face with the deadly reptile said the snake looked straight into his eyes before disappearing into the chamber. It was as if it told him a�?Wena!a�? (you).

a�?After I had finished bathing, I realised that I had forgotten my cellphone in the bathroom, when I went back to take my phone thata��s when I saw the snake in the toilet chamber starring right in my eyes.A� Paralysed with fear I just stood there as I watched the snake disappearing back in the chamber,a�? he said.

A neighbour, Tamara Ncube, a doubting Thomas also came face to face with what she had been told by others.

a�?I heard my neighbours complaining about a snake that was appearing in chambers, I did not believe it, until I saw it with my own eyes. I was shocked,a�? said Ncube.

The snake had ways and means of running away from capture because when a snake hunt was launched, it would hide but when forgotten, return to scare the hell out of them.

a�?We tried to track the snake with no success, but it kept on appearing on several occasions. The snake would appear on different occasions in our house and in our neighboura��s yard,a�? said Charakapa.

However, the elusive serpent met its fate last week when it was spotted in a neighboura��s hedge.

a�?We finally managed to kill the snake last week when we saw it basking on our neighboura��s hedge, it was becoming a serious threat to residents,a�? he said.