Kicker: The hunt for Houdini

NICK EICHER, HOST: You know it’s going to be a bad day when you check the pen of the snake you’ve nicknamed “Houdini” and discover he’s lived up to his name.

Houdini, the King of Handcuffs.

He’s out, he’s gone, he’s slipped the cuffs.

That’s news from the Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm, Sweden.

So the hunt for Houdini was on. Using x-ray the search team found him hiding in the insulation between two walls.

And of course they drilled holes, only to discover he’s slipped away again.

And it’s always the last place you look: Houdini slithered back to his enclosure.

Now this 7-foot King Cobra may not be the “King of Handcuffs” like his namesake, but it looks like he just might be “the King of Hide and Seek.”

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