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‘He wasn’t too bothered’: Durban man’s close encounter with black mamba while fixing pump in garden

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‘He wasn’t too bothered’: Durban man’s close encounter with black mamba while fixing pump in garden
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A Durban man had a close encounter with a venomous snake when he tried to fix the pump for a pond in his garden.



On Friday night, as he placed both his hands in the box that houses the pump, he saw a black mamba centimetres away from him.



Close encounter with black mamba



Snake rescuer Nick Evans said this proves that black mambas are reluctant to bite people.



“It just kept still, desperately hoping he’d leave it alone, which he did. If it wanted to bite him, it could easi

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