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Hypo: $2M if you keep a forest cobra alive in your bathroom for 3 months
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:38 PM Author: Nazca Redlines This guy will come to your house to drop off a forest cobra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyab2yfb9PQ
If the cobra stays alive and in your master bathroom (or whatever is closest to a master bathroom in your home) for the next 3 months, you will get $2M tax free.
You may continue to use the bathroom or not. Your choice.
You may use anything currently in that bathroom to seal the door, ducts, etc. or build a habitat for the snake. You cannot bring anything new into the bathroom, other than a moderate amount of food for the snake.
You cannot build any new walls or snake traps or anything like that outside the bathroom either.
You and everyone who regularly lives in your house must spend at least 80 of the next 90 nights in your home.
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:23 PM Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,... We barely use our master bathroom, so this is an easy one for me, particularly in January. I get the shit that I need out of the master bathroom. I put a bunch of snake food in there and seal the door as soon as the snake is delivered. And as an extra precaution, I shut off the heat to the house. (I'll just use space heaters in the bedrooms.) Most likely it will be so cold that the snake will just brumate for the next three months. If it wakes up and needs some food, food is available.
The one wrinkle is that many snakes will only eat live food. If this snake falls into that category, it's a bit more dicey. Maybe I could put a breeding colony of rats in the same enclosure as the snake along with a bunch of food and water. But honestly, whatever. If the snake dies, it dies. The likelihood of it trying to bite me when it is sealed in the bathroom at a low temperature is very low. Most likely it will simply brumate the entire time. My understanding is that snakes can go months without eating during brumation. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: Nazca Redlines What are you sealing the door with? You can't use anything to seal it that isn't already in the bathroom.
And no bunches of food either--only a moderate amount.
Shutting off the heat is OK. But, will your pipes burst? There is a good chance you will either kill the snake or send it out of the bathroom looking for heat. They're from Africa and not used to the cold.
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:09 PM Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,... I would have to do some research to see the temperature at which these snakes brumate. If it's fairly high, it might be sufficient to just lower the thermostat. But yeah, I'm still in. The risk of a snake bite is nearly zero at low temperatures. Worst case scenario the snake dies with no harm done. But many snakes can go months without eating while brumating, so I would gladly deal with a chilly house for a few months for a chance at a couple million. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49627159) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Don't you think the snake can, e.g., sense the heat coming off your bed with you under the covers, which is going to make him slither his way over there and curl up near you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49627291) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III 180! Snek would be chillin in my giant empty tub and kept fed with dead whatever rodents he wants. Would keep some water for him in the shower pan. No way he’s getting into the exhaust or HVAC ducts 15 feet in the air and in the middle of the ceiling, so no worries there. Nice sun beam through the south facing windows through most of the afternoon, so he’d be warm and chill.
Family would use one of the many other bathrooms. Easy $2 mill and shave a bit off the retirement timeline |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: Nazca Redlines 180
Are you putting towels around the door or anything, or are you just going to slide and let do? |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:34 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49627231) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:29 PM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III Free balling that door sill. My houses carpentry is tight. And if I die, I die
Snek would be so happy on my radient heat tile floor that he'd just chill and not come out into our cold ass bedroom |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:49 PM Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) I’d get a mongoose or two. Riki tiki tavi style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49612330) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Seems pretty close to the rule against "new walls or snake traps or anything like that outside the bathroom." And how confident are you the mongooses will get the snake before he gets you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49626930) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:27 PM Author: wait till biggus dickus hears of this So ur plan to win the $2 million by keeping the cobra alive is to buy animals that kill cobras? Jesus no wonder ur fat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49627205) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Risten (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825500&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49627281) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:49 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump I accept. This wouldn't be hard at all. Snakes don't need to eat all that often so it would only need to be fed a handful of times. I'd put some water in a toddler bathtub that I'd leave in the shower and leave the shower running at a trickle to keep it full. Drill some peepholes in the door to make sure he's not nearby when I want to throw the food in. A towel can be wedged under the door tightly enough that he won't get out. There is already a space heater in the bathroom that I could set to a comfortable temperature for him. Easy 2 million.
The poasters who want to throw all the food in at the start might end up with a dead snake since it will either eat it all at the start, or if it doesn't, the prey animals can harass and eventually kill it. This is basic snake husbandry but for normal hobbyists, if you toss a rat into your snake's tank and it isn't eaten, you have to take it out. You definitely don't leave it in because the rat will injure the snake. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Nazca Redlines 180 herpetology
But, you don't think he can slide around the towel or into the air duct if he wants to? Especially if it's nice and warm in that air duct. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump He would have no reason to go to the air duct for warmth because the space heater would allow him to get to the exact temp he wants by adjusting his distance from it.
Nonetheless, snakes do like to explore, but I don't think he could get into the air duct. He cannot climb up a flat wall unless he can reach the ground. He won't stick to it. A decent portion of his tail needs to be on the ground for him to push himself up. At that point, we are talking about a maximal length forest cobra of about 10 feet to be able to reach an air vent from a counter. Snakes can flatten themselves out quite a bit, but I still highly doubt he could fit through the vent given the size of the snake. A juvenile could fit but would not be long enough to reach. Nonetheless, it's easy to underestimate the things a snake can squeeze through and nobody who has been around them much will rely on that.
The bigger issue is that the air vent is 6+ inches away from the wall. So when he is pushing himself up (using the portion of his tail on the counter) and reaches the top, he will have to lean away from the wall to reach the vent and he won't be able to balance. He will fall time and time again if he does this. If the vent was in the top of the wall, or right next to the wall, he could absolutely reach it, but he will never reach it in the ceiling 6 inches away from the wall.
As far as the towel, I would fold it up tightly (and evenly) and put it on the ground reaching edge to edge with the door open (the towel would extend into the bedroom and into the bathroom a good ways), and then close the door over it so that the towel is being held down with a good degree of pressure. The pressure would be tightest directly under the door due to the raised floor transition strip, which would lock the towel in place. The corners are the biggest concern and where extra attention needs to be paid to make sure the towel is secure. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: samoth I use my master bath for storage, so sure.
Houses have way too many bathrooms nowadays. |