What a girl did has kept people talking after she grabbed an attacking venomous cobra with her bare before flinging it away for safety. But, there is a twist to it after all.
Annonymous girl taken unawares by the Cobra
This has been described as the unbelievable moment a woman sunbathing in South Africa catches a cobra before it can strike. The girl, sitting by a lake in Robertson, Western Cape, wearing nothing but a bikini, is captured on video performing the amazing feat seconds after she had been chatting to a friend off-screen.
She uses lightning quick reflexes to grab the reptile by its throat as it launches through the air at her, while a pair of dogs watch on from the waterside, seemingly too terrified to intervene. But is that all true?!
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Eagle-eyed viewers on the internet have spotted the whole incident is a sham as the brother was forced to admit it was all a trick.
Some people were fooled by the clever trick but many spotted the shadow straight away, despite the video only lasting for nine seconds.
In the comments, Mike Welling said: 'You can see the shadow from the fishing rod that is moving it. But nice prank had it worked.'
'Kingofbigmac' added: 'So fake, they don't move that fast, snakes don't move in a straight line. You can see the fishing pole.'
The anonymous prankster has since admitted the gag, and said it was done to scare his sister, although she reacted much differently than he expected.
He said: 'It was a prank on my sister. Yes it was pulled via fishing rod with fluorocarbon line.
'My brother and I was trying to scare my sister but it seems that she was prepared, seeming that I grew up catching snakes along that river since I was just a boy and she would sometimes join me.
'She did not handle it as we expected her to, very much impressed!'