Mess around, find out, you dumb snakes:

An eight-year-old Indian boy killed a cobra that had wrapped itself around his arm and sank its fangs into his skin by biting it back in a miraculous tale of survival.

The boy, known only as Deepak, was attacked by the snake in the remote Pandarpadh village in India's central Chhattisgarh region on Monday, it was reported.

The cobra latched on to him while he was playing outside his family home and wound its body around his arm, before rearing back and biting down to inject its deadly poison.

Fighting through the pain, Deepak furiously shook his arm but couldn't release the reptile, at which point he decided to give the attacker a taste of its own medicine and viciously sank his own teeth into its body, successfully killing the animal.

The kid went full Mike Tyson on that cobra!

'The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain,' Deepak told The New Indian Express.

'As the reptile didn't budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash,' he said.

You'll be happy to know that the cobra didn't inject the boy with any venom, but the boy's parents rushed him to the local clinic because duh.

A whopping 63,000 people die from snake bites every year, and 80% of those are in India.

Apparently, that number is down 36% from 1990.

It's nice to know that people are slowly winning the battle against humanity's ancient enemy.