Kokoro no kakera feat FEROS by Junko Takeuchiĭifferences between the 2024 anime and the manga/2002 anime.Tada Yowai Dake Janakute Bokura wa. by Mass Alert.4 Differences between the 2024 anime and the manga/2002 anime.But this was to be the last of the escaped snakes. For a while, residents feared more snakes would appear. The 11th snake was captured on October 25, 1953, and taken to the local zoo. Every time someone mentioned the cobras, I just wilted.” When the cobras began appearing, Barnett recalled, “I realized what I’d done, and I was scared to death. He released them, and figured he and the shop were even. Leaving the shop, Barnett saw a crate of snakes out back, and assumed they were harmless. “He was just ugly about the deal and told me ‘That’s tough, kid’-get lost,’” Barnett recalled in the News-Leader. But the fish died the first night Barnett brought it home, so he went back to complain. (Photo: Alina Sofia/saturated from original/CC BY-SA 2.0)īarnett told the newspaper that Mowrer gave him an exotic fish in early August 1953, as part of a trade. And an attorney had assured him he wouldn’t be charged.Īn Indian Cobra up close. After 35 years, he said, a friend had convinced him the community deserved an explanation. Then, in 1988, a man named Carl Barnett made a shocking statement in the Springfield News-Leader: “I’m the one that done it.”īarnett had been 14 years old when the cobras appeared. Mowrer denied involvement in the great snake escape up until his death in the 1970s, and locals assumed the chance of learning what really happened had passed with him. The tenth snake was killed that same day. The city’s health director drove a truck around, blaring so-called “snake-charming” music. Mowrer was ordered to move his animals outside city limits. The cobra came out, and was hit by five slugs from an officer’s pistol. ![]() When it proved of little value, police threw a tear gas grenade under the house. The chief arrived with a homemade “snake catcher,” a rope noose attached to a 10-foot pole. A man saw it disappear beneath his house, and called the police. The seventh cobra prompted the greatest response. (Photo: Courtesy History Museum on the Square) Police officers searching for cobras in Springfield, as a crowd watches. The sixth was captured by Mowrer himself near the shop. The fifth appeared in a woman’s garage, where she happened to keep her hoe. The fourth, on a roadway, was run over repeatedly with a car. The third, in a yard, was also dispatched with a hoe. ![]() Reo Mowrer acknowledged he kept cobras, but said none had escaped.Īs the weeks progressed, however, snakes kept appearing. The police visited Mowrer Animal Company, the pet shop a block away. The police were called, and a local science teacher identified the species, native to a region thousands of miles away. A week later, the same thing happened across the street. The first cobra was spotted in a yard on August 15 the homeowner quickly killed it with his garden hoe. ![]() It would be 35 years until the person who set the reptiles free came forward. While a local pet shop was always suspected to be the source of the snakes, its owner denied any involvement. In 1953, Springfield, Missouri, was a city of about 65,000 people and at least 11 escaped Indian cobras slithering loose on the streets.īetween August and October, at least 11 of the snakes were either killed or captured in Springfield, much to the alarm of residents, many of whom fought back with a common gardening tool. A police office holding one of the cobras caught in Springfield, Missouri, in 1953.
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