The UN’s slithery Swazi snake sorrows

by | Jun 23, 2011


A new threat to the United Nations is reported in Swaziland:

A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) worker was terribly shaken and emotionally moved when her boyfriend gifted her with snakes in a beautiful present wrapper.

The hair-raising incident took place at the UNDP offices in Mbabane sometime last week. The lover of the UNDP worker came to present his girlfriend with two snakes and a lizard. The gentleman went to the offices and left the present to her lover. The man is alleged to have quickly delivered the gift and departed soon.

Jubilantly and eagerly, the lady opened the gift bag only to find two dead snakes and a lizard. The lady was too shocked and threw the gift down and screamed. Other UNDP workers quickly responded to find out what was the matter. They were also astonished to find the ‘gift’ snakes.

Senior staff members are said to have intervened. The security took away the snakes. According to sources, a well-dressed decent man arrived at the offices looking for his girlfriend, who work in the company. The innocent-looking man was carryinga beautiful gift wrapper. The security allowed him to enter, our sources revealed.

Yikes. On the plus side, this sounds like an excellent basis for a low-budget sequel to that 2006 Samuel L. Jackson classic “Snakes on a Plane”, featuring the immortal line “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” Come on, just say it out loud: “I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking UNDP office!”  Movie gold.

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