Indian farmers dump bags of snakes in tax office.

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

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

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

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

Don't even THINK of treading on us

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

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

Would Mr. Jackson please pick up the white phone.

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.

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