The Other Red Meat

In other parts of the country, people joke about what they cook up in Chinese restaurants. In Shelby, Mississippi (where 76% of my students live), it's not a joke, it's some poisonous cottonmouth snake killed in the local sewer.

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Eddie Boone, the city worker, was cleaning streets when he noticed the cottonmouth moccasin. He killed it with a pipe.

"He was gonna get me so I had to get him first," Boone said.

Boone carried the dead snake across the street near James Quality Market to show it off. He said the store owner "came out and asked me if he could buy the snake for a dollar."

To show it off? A dollar? All ready to be cooked?

In another article, it says that the thing the market owner is in trouble for is buying wildlife... Not for having it in the kitchen, and not for intending to cook it up and serve it...