Maryland wildlife is getting out of hand

Here is the lead of a story from our neighbor to the south:

"A Maryland woman who was bitten by an exotic cobra over the weekend may owe her life to the quick action of snake specialists at the Philadelphia Zoo.

"The woman walked into a Baltimore clinic Sunday night reporting she had been in a shopping center parking lot when she bent down to pick up what she thought was a stick.

"The 'stick,' a two-foot monocled cobra, sank a fang into one of her fingers, said Elisa Armacost, spokeswoman for the Baltimore Fire Department."

A cobra? In Maryland? And we all thought blue crabs were about as exotic as it got down there.