Zoho CEO's close encounter with 12-foot King Cobra in village
Zoho CEO's close encounter with 12-foot King Cobra in village
(Web Desk) – Sridhar Vembu, the CEO and founder of Zoho Corporation, has posted a tweet going viral, in which, he encountered with 12-foot King Cobra in Tamil Nadu Village.
He tweeted two pictures of — hold your breath — a 12-foot king cobra that visited him recently. In one of the photos, we can see Vembu and a group of forest rangers holding the snake.
He captioned it, “A rare 12 feet long King Cobra paid us a visit”. He added, “Our awesome local forest rangers arrived and caught it for release in the nearby hills. Here is the brave me attempting to touch it. A very auspicious day!”
The post received over 3.4k likes within a few hours of being posted — no surprises there!
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 21, 2021
— Gajamani (@gajamani) September 21, 2021
One person criticised the snake-spotting celebration in a now-deleted tweet, to which Mr Vembu responded by saying that the presence of snakes indicates a healthy ecosystem. "If we make the whole ecosystem sterile, it won t be just the snakes that we will lose," he warned.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 21, 2021
Some users were stunned by the size of the snake. A user commented, “That looks really big and scary.”
— Rakesh Bhosale (@i_rakeshbhosale) September 21, 2021
Another user said that the snake could give anyone a “panic attack”. “If I was the one to have spotted such a large but magnificent creature, I d have a major panic attack,” the comment read.
If I was the one to have spotted such a large but magnificent creature, I d have a major panic attack.
— SinSinWati (@Sinsinwati) September 21, 2021
A user named Arun Kumar tweeted that the people weren t careful enough while handling the cobra: “Unprofessional way of handling the snake. There was no reason to hold the snake like that for photo ops. Their vertebrae are delicate and can easily get damaged.”
— arunkumar (@tweet_arunkumar) September 21, 2021
Then there were a series of funny comments where users took the photos in a lighter vein. One of them, Deepak Sugandhi, wrote, "This occasion should be celebrated by launching a new app/service "Zoho Cobra". Now we have to figure out what that app will be for”.
