Actually good point.

Mony, you might want to put up a big bold capital letters warning that the video is disturbing, and maybe an explaination as to why you've posted it before someone reports it or something.

sorry but could not watch it to the end...  It probably has some ritual or something to it, but to me it is just stupid...

I don't want ot burst anyone's bubble here, but reporting it to the likes of youtube won't stop it from happening, it'll only stop people from seeing it and finding out about the kinds of ridiculas things that go on in the world so that poorer people can make a buck to feed their kids. Getting it off the net, off the tv screens, etc; will only make the problem go more underground, and thus have less chance of anyone doing anything to improve the situation.

Yes it is wrong, but it's reality, it happens every single day whether we like it or not. Chances are, that little child will be sold to the sex slave market by the age of 10 and will have HIV by the age of 12, and will be dead by the age of 18. If earning some money by getting attacked by what has become a harmless snake will earn enough money to save the child from that, I vote for the snake. It's the better of the two evils.

When a snake is de-fanged it's venom glands are also removed so it can't spray the venom.

As for Steve Erwin, funny how he did exactly the same with Bindy and no one made mention of it. Why? Because the media didn't get a good piece of footage thay could use to make a huge deal of it to sell, unlike with Bob.

If the media was more willing to target activities like this, we probably wouldn't be commenting here because it wouldn't happen anymore because the people with the power to do something about it would sit up and take notice and do something about it.

Such is life in a commercialised media-driven world.

exactly!! fangs or no fangs, venom or no venom they shouldnt expose their children to such high danger!! i dont see how the child is doing any charming here looks more like he wants to grab the tail lol..Also what would happen if the snake decided to wrap its self around the baby?? how would they get it off??

good point. do  cobras constrict?

All snakes constrict, but some are easier to get off than others. Pythons are the hardest to move as that is their primary attack on their prey. Venomous snakes aren't quite as good at it.

ive always said that if i ever won a large  sum of money the first thing i would do after setting my close friends and family up would be to donate to cancer research and charities like this. this just emphasises it all even more why id want to.

yeah i was thinking that. i cringed just looking at it. imagine if someone put asnake so close to one of our kids we'd kill em!

The snakes are always defanged. they couldn't do it for a living otherwise! they just pretend that they are dangerous for the tourists.

i pressed add before i finshed lol..

Its disgusting how they are all laughing in the background,i dont find it funy at all and the baby looks so scared, poor little thing :(  he doesnt even have a nappy on :(

i thought the exact same thing.