Shew..... Well this was an interesting read for a Friday afternoon.
I really do find it disturbing that so many of you are praising the snake and condemning the human. This is a tragedy which ever way you look at it. The snake died and so did the human. Yet most of you are raving about the snake. It's pathetic.
Catch a wake up call, yes you are dealing with people who sleep with vulture brains and all kinds of abnormal stuff but they did what they know best, protect themselves against a snake, and a black mamba on top of it. They are going to be killing snakes for decades to come. That is the bottom line!!! And yes this is VERY different from poaching rhino.
Assuming they were drinking or whatever is a little below the belt, not all of them drink. Maybe they just had they timeline misjudged, it can be as simple as that. Panic and fear can distort the mind.
I used to be proud of a community such as this that stood together for a united cause, reptiles. But when members start championing the death of a human because he killed a snake, I'm sorry, I am ashamed to be part of your twisted community. Really I am.