Those with OPHIDIOPHOBIA, turn away

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Lady Tai... she's an 8 foot long Coastal Taipan, the second deadliest snake in Australia (the first is the Inland Taipan) and she calls the Cairns Tropical Zoo her home. Not by choice, I'm sure, but she gets free board, three squares a day and never has to worry about carrying around a sign that reads "Will Slither for food". Well, she arrived at our clinic when her keeper noticed she was lethargic with a swelling halfway down her body and our Xrays showed she had a fractured vertebrae in her spine (probably from a fall in her habitat). Our choices were limited, so we scheduled spinal surgery the following day. You can see her dangerous end in a clear plastic tube being aerated with anesthetic gas and if you look carefully at the close-up pic, I'm using an instrument to indicate the fracture site and the small spinal rod I placed to reduce the fracture. In the end, the procedure went well and the entire surgery team (Mick and Roxanne from the Zoo; Peter, Vanessa, Jo, Selina and I from the clinic) are now hopeful we're making a bit of history in saving the life of a deadly ophidian. Talk about ironic :) And as an added bonus, I'll pay for lunch at the Tinity Beach Cafe for the first person who e-mails/posts the correct answer to the following: who is the galactic actor who was turned into a snake in the movie Ssssss?