Like running from cops even though you probably just have a taillight out or something.

Mowrer didn't know he was innocent of releasing the snakes, just that did infact originate from his business and that his handling and storage of all the animals was reckless and unseemly. still on his head

He knew his deadly snakes where missing though.

He's the IRL Jester, omg! XD

@@najrenchelf2751 why not IFL Jester?

Don't want to be charged with negligence if someone got bit by the cobras

@@resmur8095 well he was pretty close to getting that for the cobras just by doing what he did- if he pretended it was a robbery or teen prank gone wrong, it’s harder to blame him alone. Especially if he moved the snakes after, like he was supposed to lol

@@averyeml he didn't know what happened to the cobras, from his perspective a shipment of cobras just gone missing

@@resmur8095 what? He had a crate of cobras out back, and then he later found the crate but empty. He knew precisely what had happened and acted like a shady idiot.

@@drakemarsaly6644 probably because he was a shady idiot

I know right! Who keeps penguins in their backyard in the US?

@@hatty_hattington. that in the first place! Unless it was a ck,d place or a freezer

Im assuming the kid also didn't know the pet shop owner was running a shop in unsafe conditions so you gotta admire the level of pettiness it took for the kid to not only tip over a box of snakes but also keep quiet about it until adulthood all because of a dead fish. 😆

That sounds like straight up karma.

@@JoshMakesMovies1 😂😂

After 1 minutes I was thinking "Oh, haha, it was just a misunderstanding." Checks timestamp, 28 minutes remining. Hoo boy.

Legit a Coens movie in the making

The entire time I was expecting some sort of epic rug pull at the end. Like it turned out the Leader & Press had made the story up entirely, or the original identifiers of the Cobras were overzealous and they weren't actually Cobras or something. That it turned out to be a genuine thing was, in it's own way, a greater subversion than the rug pull I anticipated.

I want a movie about this parodying Zodiac (2007) style

Wait how hard would it be to shot a cobra ,just curious ?

As a Springfield native, neither did I.

@@deathjunior7755 As someone born and raised in Springfield Missouri have known this story for years and years and years. If someone ever makes a movie about this it needs to have Brad Pitt in it because he is a native Springfieldian.

@@hartofnixie7060 as a Rolla native, I yell "truth!" To this.

I'm a Springfield native... Springfield, il

@@hartofnixie7060 I grew up down the street from Brad Pitts parents while going to Kickapoo

With the help of our late and great friend Barry White

@@lesleyderrick7449 if !YOU! Don’t give AF about grammar, tense, plural vs, singular, and completely worn words, and nonsense sentences; why do you think we would? Did you type this while driving ? Your auto-correct was not able to make coherent sentences out of your comment. Yet you dump it here in the web like a vase of de-fanged cobras. Imagine how much of the web is just clogged with nonsense comments that even the author never bothered to read. In the future: there will be moon-sized storage facilities of garbage dumped onto the web that the author did Not care enough to check before posting and no one else was able to decipher. Imagine how much taxes we pay the NSA to collect this garbledy-gook and analyze and store it, just in case it is some secret terrorist code or call to prayer. tl;dr if you turn your spellcheck and auto correct “off”, then your comments may actually make MORE sense. How many people does that apply to?

How’s it go… we’ll release snakes to kill the lizards and the Monkeys to kill the snakes? “But then won’t we be left with a bunch of monkeys?” “That’s the beauty of it when winter comes around the monkeys will die off…” different episode

I want to know what the comment this guy found looked like, lol.

"Did you bring the pre-whacked snakes?"

*s u s* p e c t AMOGUS

poor penguin

@@crazy_wwww I see your comment and without ever playing the game, and only seeing a couple let's plays for reference, I can almost hear the opening sequence, the percussion rolling around in my head that starts each roumd of sleuthing. .

he didn't "mis-identify" it, he lied about it. he knew it was a dangerous species and told a bunch of lies he thought would be swallowed

@@rhueoflandorin yeah that's why op put misidentifying in quotes

Apparently a car will suffice (although I really hate to see snakes dead on the road)

snakes are scared of people and only bite to defend themselves, keep your distance and call a snake relocater if you see a cobra and you'll be fine. Most bites happen because people try to mess with the snakes. It's more dangerous to try to kill them then to leave them alone and most snakes are harmless to people and wonderful for the ecosystem

@@baguettewoman1413 though if you do see cobras in the us, well, other than coral snakes in the regions they are native, try to quickly find an expert to ID and contain. We have enough invasive reptiles in the country. Hawaii has it really bad.

You need an amazing doggie like Sally too.

There is actually a cobra hoe and it would be useless killing a snake 🐍 either way your comment made me lol 😆 way harder than I was prepared for

Objective: kill 12 snakes

What do you mean you didn’t know there’s literally a museum on the Square that has the newspaper clippings and articles all about it like right on the Square the north east corner across from the drivers license bureau the same side as the rickshaw inn

I haven't even heard of any animal called Cobra. What even is a snake?

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy Say, fellas, while you're here, I'm running a sale on penguins. How about it?

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy Cobra is a snake, cobra is just what we commonly call elapid snakes, most of them belong to the genus Naja I don't even know why i'm saying that to you since you could just look that up yourself but fuc* it

@@KaykyG018 whoosh

Some say that to this day if you throw a cobra at a child Mowrer will appear and shove it into a box.

You could order animals through the Sears Catalog. My older Brothers had a Skunk that was de-scented.

@@r90fan1 : A pet skunk ordered through the Sears catalogue, what a country!

I have worked at local exotic pet shop in my state. Yep, had a certain species of cobra... It's normal within the exotic community... You can still order skunks, capybaras, meerkats, several species of primate, venomous snakes, arachnids, and so on...

@@muadhnate : That’s no way to talk about your younger sibling!

@@djquinn11 LMAO

I expected this to be something more people commented on. After calling snakes poisonous and saying this I just turned it off.

I dunno, I feel like it’s just some simple prose and not a literal statement that Springfield, Missouri is exactly 1,000 miles away from India.

@@BrantTheResidentCalvinist You stopped watching a incredibly well made video because he made 1 mispronunciation and talked about how snakes are venemous?

@@BrantTheResidentCalvinist Ok virgin.

@@sarahmathias9463 oh shit, you really got me there.

I legit thought he was trying to eliminate the shop owner

From the GI Joe wiki: “Unbeknownst to the world at large, Cobra already as established a foothold in the United States, specifically the seemingly inconspicuous town of Springfield. At first glance, it has all the appearances of nice little town with nice midwestern values. Stick around, though, and the people might just convince you to stay and believe... believe in the Cobra philosophy”

I burst out laughing at that part

He goes where he is needed.

That is the most Lemony Snicket thing I've ever heard 😂

Especially considering the one handed shooting used by police at the time.

Probably fought in the war. And ammo was cheap then - lotsa practice.

He probably hunted, or was in the war like people said. Target shooting has very little impact on making shots in the field and he landed an impressive amount of shots on a small moving target after unexpectedly having to drop a shotgun and ready his pistol.

Yet didn't kill it. Should have went with the hoe first.

I’m fucked up that Cobras can take 5 revolver shots and then need a hoe to be killed

He probably meant *thousands of miles

Maybe he meant Indiana

Yeah its a small world didnt you know?

@Melissa Reohorn even then it's not a thousand miles

@@melissareohorn7436 Springfield to Indianapolis is 470 miles... and cobras aren't native to the United States at all

What is KZfaq for?

Same here

now you have something to talk to your family about

Don't forget about useless.

The worst plague a snake one

100% agree that shop owner sounded like a piece of garbage of a human being left a poor penguin Dead with a bunch of regular penguins knew that some of his cobras were missing didn't tell anybody cuz he feared about his money 🤑 and than people that damn town I hope he's burning in hell

i personally disagree the conditions may have been poor, but for the time that was standard; still not why i disagree though its likely the penguin recently died due to the stress of the entire situation on Mowrer, i mean, if the entire town is yelling at you to get the fuck out, your constantly recieving death threats, your having to move your ENTIRE stock of probably atleast 50 animals offsite to a new location (AND THAT STILL ISNT GOOD ENOUGH) despite you not having done anything, that probably takes a toll enough to neglect feeding one of the many many animals he had on sight, its sad but its likely that this contributed significantly to the death of the penguin. And, side note, while the police investigated his store he was out of town at a carnival, so the penguin could have died during his visit away.

Here is the thing: as far as he was aware, for some unknown reason some of his boxes broke and the snakes escaped. So from his point of view, he was not innocent, and lied through his teeth to save his ass.

@@azzzertyy given that he runs a freaking pet store but no one has any sympathy towards him show how "well" he runs his business. I doubt the actual perpetrator was the only one who hated his attitude. There's a family owned pet store near where I live that has operated since my grandparents were kids (about 70 years ago) where to this day most local pets were bought there and the owners are well beloved now and even then (and has since also expanded into a vet). So, no. He is a terrible business owner/operator/manager in general and potentially endangered the town with lies and negligence. So what? He was away and hired NOBODY to look after the store? He was under investigation and he decides it was a good idea to go to a carnival and sell his wares? He has connections to bring in a freaking cobra into town but neglected to keep them secured?

@@moscowvicent831 you cant use an emoji and the 6 words later say “hope hes burning in hell”

Thanks, James! I appreciate you taking the time to watch. If you want to do me a solid and you've got some free time, share the video around with others. Hope you have a great weekend!

You’re welcome! And sure, no problem :) Love your channel!

What I've learnt: snakes are weak af.

My dad has killed several bad snakes with a garden hoe, snakes underestimate the power of the garden hoe

Yeah I've had many hoes charm my cobra, if you know what I mean

But you better not miss that first swing or you get fangs in your face.

I still wonder how the heck that guy caught one in a pickle jar, actual gigachad

Thanks, John! This took quite a bit of work to put together. Would you mind giving it a share?

@@austinmcconnell Sorry, I would if I had any social media to share it on, but I have been showing off your previous video to some people.

@@i8dacookies890 I'll give it a share for ya

@@austinmcconnell I think you should do an video on Pulk. Flight 612.

Maybe it's the wrong Springfield? There are a few.

Ditto lol 😂

It worked tho didn't it??

I actually already knew that, snake charming is actually mostly the movement of the flute itself. So I was just sitting here like, "snakes don't have ears" and giggled like a maniac at the reveal

They react to the he movement of the he flute player,not the sounds!

@Opal Allen enjoy the inevitable hate this comment will bring

It's the Ozarks; weird is normal.

I know right? I can't wrap my head around this? How does a guy in a small midwestern town make a living selling monkeys and penguins and shit? Where was he even finding penguins to begin with?

@@mr.peanut2096 We got penguins in Springfield. Johnny Morris has a giant preserve where he hunts every creature known to man.

it's an "exotic" pet shop, specializing in animals that probably weren't yet illegal to sell in the United states

@@Nelubez it amuses me how surprised people are at what happens around here

Yer name haha

me too, this is my first time hearing about it though.

Do you know about Nellie Dunn?

@@sharksport01 nope

@@genericrandomness3455 She ran a brothel in Springfield in the early 1900's. She refused to be passive when the law came after her. Interesting woman.

Also the charming cartoon with all the Cobra's chasing the truck!

I lost it when I saw the car. Cobras inability to hear just kept me going. 🤣

What a fiasco! Snake charming music! LOL! The good news is that no one was harmed but keeping cobras? I went to college in Springfield and never heard this story.

They should have blasted the deepest bass into the ground if they wanted to find all of them.

@@motxmod I'm just picturing the Simpsons episode with the snakes.

yeah, his shop was a ticking time bomb- it just got set off early....

He wasn't falsely accused, he was directly involved in this shitstorm, lied to authorities and hiding the evidence.

I mean those WERE his snakes, and he did the shadiest shit to avoid blame, so "falsely accused" just isnt correct, he was involved and it was still his fault to some degree

If you're okay with anyone being falsely accused you're a piece of shit. This guy was not falsely accused though.

Why are you saying he was falsely accused?

You mean that spoiled little brat?

Eye for an eye is not evil genius It's the oldest evil

I feel like the tropical fish probably wasn’t kept in the conditions necessary for its survival by the 14yo it would have died with a week or two anyway

@@Wrestling_24 Yeah but it was alrdy kept in deplorable conditions in the pet shop so it died even sooner than that

""""""Genius""""""

I assume the episode was based on this event lol

@@likeastarbaby apparently not, looking on wikipedia for the "Whacking Day" episode that was inspired by Texas "Rattlesnake round-up" events

came here to post this

The thing that surprised my the most about this video that indeed in this town the people did not run away from all those cobra's, but all just wondered "a cobra, now where did I put my whacking stick"

There's also the parallel of attempting to use music to charm a city's worth of snakes.

Absolutely insane. I can't believe he said that

I mean... Ngl, i probably gonna do the same thing if i were 14

@@CinemaDemocratica You're giving way too much credit to a guy with a deab penguin, rotting food, suspicious and dangerous behavior preceding the cobra event. Super likely he overstocked his fish and the thing died just because of that, but selling exotic stock in the "typical plastic bag" is incomprehensible to me at its face. The guy was obviously inexperienced in way too many things, but the difficulty of keeping most fish labeled "exotic" especially in the 50s had to have been stupid hard and he would have known the fish to die when handing it over to the kid.

*"My goals are beyond your understanding"*

Mowrer had 13 deadly snakes.

100% agree with you f*** that guy

Exactly, like wtf? He kept MONKEYS? And he DUMPED SNAKES IN A TUB? Fuck that guy

What an asshole that guy was.

i feel like Mowrer was more of a sociopath than the kid. who tells a kid "well that's how business works LMAO just go eat it!" and expects them NOT to take revenge on you??

I’m not sure you are supposed to feel badly for him. He knew they were his snakes and lied about them being accounted for, all while mistreating his animals. The video acknowledges all of it. If anything I felt it was framed as poetic justice that he’s never “vindicated” during his life.

This. Only use a chainsaw during sharknados.

@@victoriakleber1397 The Governor of Utah used a tennis racket to confront that threat.

@zama422: That's not news to me -- I lost track of how many copperheads my mother killed with a garden hoe in or near our homes in Virginia. I killed one myself with a garden hoe in my father's basement office, not to mention he stomped a young one to death with his bedroom slippers on the stairs as he was heading to do some work in his basement printing shop. 🐍

@@pablohammerly448 When you realise the USA has more issues with deadly snakes than us Aussies:

@@carrott36 Nice try, but y'all Aussies have to deal with snakes that are a lot more dangerous than anything we Americans have to face, not to mention everything else trying to kill you on land and in the water. I think Australia is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Even going for a swim can get you killed if not eaten! I prefer dealing with the copperheads in Virginia -- at least I've never heard of a fatal copperhead bite. Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes are a lot more dangerous than copperheads, but much more rare, since I've never seen one outside a zoo. I've only seen a couple cottonmouths/water moccasins and always in water -- in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. and in a swamp in a park near Alexandria. The venomous snakes in Virginia are a lot less dangerous than those in Australia. I don't live in the Florida Everglades, so I don't have to worry about alligators, crocodiles or more dangerous snakes. At least you Aussies don't have to deal with black mambas, since they're in Africa.

That's what I was thinking, especially if it was slithering. The fact that a cobra was even alive after 5 shots of presumably a .357 or .38 (given the time period) is also wild.

I had a revolver, shooting at a rattler at five feet, the snake was not moving, and hit it twice out of eight shots. lol

I was surprised they got a loop around the thing to pick it up without it falling apart!

Deadeye

DEAD EYE IS RIGHT. THAT GUY COULD SHOOT!

if he didn't keep the snakes they couldn't get out,and removing a snake's fangs to "make them safe" is stupid because fangs grow back

Frankly, I'm shocked they didn't arrest him on multiple charges of obstruction.

*tinderbox, not 'tender box'

@@RockandrollNegro Are you sure? Those "boneless wings" had to have come from somewhere...

Eh lying and destroying evidence isn’t as bad as letting over 10 deadly snakes loose, also one of the fastest venous snakes. Surprised no people were bitten given people actively hunting for them

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If you watch Austin, you'd know the only series on here is useless facts

Cool guy alert

@@dickartist what the fuck?

@@kt_lavigne06 i love you

That’s honestly beautiful

They still are in stores

Yah a Little bit, but they have anti venom not sure and if we have even any neurotoxin snakes in missouri only vipers I think not sure but that may affect treatment in atleast keeping someone stable. Personally I'd be most worried about their behavior: where will it hide? How aggressive?

@@swampdonkey1567 Even with the relative lethality considered it still seems strange to me. Its 12 snakes as far as these people knew, compared against all the natural and man made risks to life they faced daily. This seems a lot more like some weird kind of snake xenophobia and media panic than it does any kind of considered risk assessment.

The native snakes would be on the Cobra’s menu! A veritable banquet!

Copperheads are quiet snakes that don't cause trouble unless you trouble them. I don't know anyone who's even seen a cottonmouth.

Yo I grew up in KC been all over Missouri what about the rattlesnakes and water moccasins they ain't thug enuff? Them cottonmouths (water moccasin same snake idk) aggressive as hell come at you. You'll know real quick out fishing and one falls in the boat everybody getting wet.

this whole thing just sounds like a movie down to the timing of the snake problem and the soon-to-be city manager lmao

People were far tougher back then. The men off to war during that era (WWI, WWII, and Korea) so the women and kids learned to deal for themselves. Nowadays, people would scream until they ruptured themselves and then sued the cops & EMS for it!

@@nancythane4104 okay boomer I don’t think people were “tougher” back then, especially when it came to wild animals.

Even today, Springfield is a VERY small city in an extremely rural county. It's a part of the country that has a lot of venomous Coppermouth (Water Moccasion) and Rattlesnakes. I remember once being threatened by a Coppermouth crossing a river as we were canoeing past. It was all of about 5 seconds we were facing each other and I spent the whole time ready to swat the thing with my oar if it got adventurous. Most of my family from around those parts won't hesitate to kill snakes in their yard or run over them in the road.

Yeah I've killed several snakes at my old job on a golf course and around my house. I usually use a shovel, has good distance and a sharp blade.

Yep, it's still his fault even though he didnt release them, he actively hampered the police investigation

And how many! Imagine if they had known from the start that they were looking for 12. They could have swept the area immediately around the shop and probably find the snakes much faster.

Please see yourself out🤣🤣

Tʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀ ʙᴏᴡʟɪɴɢ ᴀʟʟᴇʏ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴠɪᴄɪᴏᴜs sɴᴏᴡsᴛᴏʀᴍ, ғᴏᴜʀ ᴜɴʟɪᴋᴇʟʏ ʜᴇʀᴏᴇs sǫᴜᴀʀᴇ ᴏғғ ᴀɢᴀɪɴsᴛ ᴄᴏʙʀᴀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴍᴀsʜ ʜɪᴛ ᴏғ ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀ 202x! (Cameo by Samuel L. Jackson, as the owner of the bowling alley.)

Brava!!

Or all the other reptiles that were killed because the townsfolk can't tell the difference between a snake and an iguana.

fuck the snakes, that poor iguana tho

Cobras are awesome, especially Kings (not actually Cobras, I know) and this guy was a turd. The dead Penguin really sucked. I'm from Missouri, a Cobra-lover and never heard this. Great video.

Glad to meet a fellow reptile lover! The cobras were definitely a danger to people but they were just doing what their instincts told them to.

Would probably have to further dramatize. Maybe like 300 snakes, and maybe have a fight scene in a school where a band of misfit kids fights off the horde to save all the younger kids + add a fainted teacher for comedic effect. Also add a bad cop with a heart of gold who rushes in and makes a makeshift flamethrower to kill all the snakes as his act of redemption. Plus have him bite by one, but the female love interest who is also a doctor who doesn't play by men's rules rushes in with the antivenom to save him. Damn I'm good. This movie is gonna be great.

@@Matthew-li7we "Damn I'm good." every indie film maker ever.

I think it would! The best way to do it essentially to make Jaws as if it would have been made by the Coen brothers instead. Not dramatize too much and just highlight the absurdity of it all. Make sure to have Charles be a side character throughout the film and then have the plot twist at the end would make it as dumb as the real life story.

Simpsons did it.

@@gabrielledebourg2487 Coen brothers. That's exactly what I was thinking. They would kill it.

Turtle: Dude! I'm not poisonous! Just let me eat my lettuce!

OMG, SNAKES ARE EVOLVING! THEY LEARNED HOW TO USE SHIELDS!

@@aronpill2767 and they also learned to play guitars and now punk rockers.

We're american, it's our culture. Ugh, some people are so inconsiderate. (/j)

when the cobras show up in your town, youll wish you had more pew and less condescension lol. Guns are a tool. Sometimes ya gotta kill some shit

Lmao

Actually, since king cobras are predators of other snakes, some civic minded Floridian should establish breeding colonies of them in the state, thereby enabling them to control the invasive python problem. No need to mention this to the government or scientists, after all, they never do anything useful.

How is Florida allowed?

(whose fault their escape was not)

Same...yer name haha.

Even better that I’m from Springfield and I’ve never known of this story.

@@HaloProductionsUSA Watch out for Cobras dude!

Ive lived close by my entire life and never wouldve guessed snake bashin day actually happened here

Poor snakes

Ninja Turtles: Dont sing it! Bring it!

LOL....proven again that KZfaq user's are far more entertaining and witty than anyone coming out of Hollywood...why I always read the comments

MOO- Snuckle 1 second ago If youve ever seen a alligator snapping turtle capable of snapping your hand off at the wrist like we have here, its not as sad. Think less michaelangelo and more bowser. Dont feel bad for those assholes lol

This comment, lol, hilarious.

If she does i would love to hear her stories.

You gotta at least make something up now... we're waiting

Let me know what she says

I would also like to know

I for one remember that very well. My daddy worked at the newspaper as a photographer. I am sure most of the photos were taken by him. I remember the boa because I saw it stretched out on the ground as he photographed it. But my strongest memory is of the monkey incident. My little sister and I were both with Daddy when he went to cover the capture. The monkey was in a garage up in the rafters and the men were having no luck getting their hands on it. So someone came up with the brilliant idea of sticking my sister up there so the monkey would come to her. I well remember the screaming fit she had over that idea. I sure laughed all during the video, well told, thanks.

Continental drift!

Lol

I think he misread 10,000 as 1,000 but that caught me by surprise too.

Yeah even I'm like "uh missouri on any edge is 1k miles away from out of the US".

Grant Pittman, Pangea.

sNaKeS ArE VeNoMoUs nOt pOiSoNoUs

@@NeverEvenThere But they are, your point here is?

I bet you're fun at parties...

@@NeverEvenThere there are some poisonous snakes.

@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib incredibly rare and only one has been actually found as I know it, and it is also venemous. Its poison also only comes from its diet.

Beautiful

Thanks, Ivan! I appreciate you taking the time to watch.

The "show me" show?

Hahaha! And still do!

@@mtn1793 Agree!!! Minus the Hahaha!

@@brianpeterson1675 Yeah. It’s not so funny is it?

that's true, but they don't allow you to show incest on KZfaq :p

Biblical!

daily life in the ozarks to be honest. We somewhere near 100 different typea of snakes and every water snake here is venomous. With the difficulty to see a copperhead with their camo, anytime you walk 100 ft in any wilderness, theres a good chance you never saw the snake you never noticed.

Welcome aboard! My "Top Shelf Videos" playlist is probably my best stuff. Happy Binging!

@@austinmcconnell thanks! I'll check them out.