Indian farmers dump bags of snakes in tax office.

[Dover]

Snakes in a tax office? Seems a little redundant...


LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Two farmers fed up with alleged bribery demands emptied three bags filled with slithering snakes in a busy tax office in northern India, an official said Wednesday.

The 40 or so snakes of different sizes and species — including at least four deadly cobras — sent clerks and villagers climbing atop tables and scurrying out the door to escape the office in Basti, about 186 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of Lucknow, said Uttar Pradesh state official Ramsukh Sharma.

"Snakes started climbing up the tables and chairs," he said. "There was total chaos. Hundreds of people gathered outside the room, some of them with sticks in their hands, shouting that the snakes should be killed."

No one was bitten or injured in the incident Tuesday afternoon, and police and forest officials captured the snakes. The farmers had been asking for tax records for their land in nearby Narharpur village, but tax officials withheld the files for weeks while allegedly demanding bribes. ...cont'd

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501712_162-57333537/indian-farmers-dump-bags-of-snakes-in-tax-office/




I wonder how this might go over on the Wall St. trading floor or Congress?

[MADem]

1. Whoa--now that's some 'direct action.' I'd say those guys are pissed off. nt

[Remmah2]

2. emptied three bags filled with slithering snakes in a busy tax office

It'll probably take them weeks to sort out the government employees from the snakes.

[hobbit709]

4. that was my thought too.

[Huey P. Long]

3. Snakes in an Office....I'm glad that got made. -eom

[newfie11]

5. one snake to another

they should all be comfortable in the tax office. Good for the farmers!

[LiberalEsto]

6. Snake Occupy!

Don't even THINK of treading on us

[malaise]

7. Get thee to the greatest page

[pnorman]

8. K & R!

I just copied this in an OWS thread in another venue! LOL LOL LOL!

[LeftishBrit]

9. Well, people go to visit their relatives, so why shouldn't snakes?

[hlthe2b]

10. Now, tell me... who HASN'T fantasized about that.....

:evilgrin:



Just kiddin, IRS.... Just 'a kiddin... ;)

[ret5hd]

11. Paging Samuel L. Jackson...Paging Samuel L. Jackson...

Would Mr. Jackson please pick up the white phone.

[Dover]

15. Well, so far we've seen a plane flown into an irs office (austin, tx) and now

we've seen snakes brought into an irs office ...

Surely it won't take long before the two come together for the movie going public.

[lbrtbell]

12. Special delivery to Wall Street

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(And the 1% think OWS is bad? At least the riot police don't have to round up cobras.)

[Dover]

13. lol....Would have been perfect for Halloween 'trick or treats'...n/t

[Kingofalldems]

14. I hate it when that happens

[Huey P. Long]

16. .