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  • Snake in a bottle
    David Rix
    16 Nov 2002

    I once read a small note in a weekly magazine, that told the tale of a man living somewhere in the east of China.

    One day, he felt like drinking liquor and brought forth a dusty ol' bottle o' booze, spiced with a snake that had been lying in there for over a year. He took the lid off and as he took a sip the snake came to life (!), slithered its way out of the bottle and bit the poor man in the throat...

    Bad luck, it seems, can come in any form and at any time.

    Watch out.

    This story is all true. Really.