Guest Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 'The snake actively stalked the dog' I imagine he'd done his homework, staked out the family home for a couple of days with his binoculars etc. to calculate when the family let the dog out
DanTheFoxBhoy Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Haha, I remember reading an urban legend a while ago about a snake sizing up its owner to eat her. Bullcrap, apparently, as a snake doesn't "size up" its prey and nor could your average pet snake fit its jaws around a person's head and shoulders.
Tabou Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 As some one who has a MASSIVE fear of snakes, I could honestly say I would move house. And ask our over zealous local authority to issue said snakes with an AssssssssBO
skinnydipper Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Anyone see Life In Cold Blood the other night. Showed a python swallowing a deer
purpleronnie Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Children terrified as python eats boy November 25 2002 By Jane Flanagan Johannesburg A six-metre African rock python has eaten a boy near Durban - the first recorded "man-eating" incident for the species. For three hours other children hid up mango trees near the township of Lamontville, too terrified to flee, as the snake first trapped the 10-year-old and squeezed the life out of him, then swallowed him whole. Police and snake experts found no trace of the child, or his clothing. They found nothing but flattened grass and a trail leading down to a stream. The incident last week prompted widespread panic among the township's 50,000 residents and great fascination among herpetologists across the country. Eleven-year-old Khaye Buthelezi, who saw the extraordinary attack, was persuaded to revisit the site on Saturday. His eyes darting nervously for signs of the python, Khaye showed where his companion had been gathering fallen fruit when taken by the giant snake. "The snake quickly wrapped itself around his body, pinning his arms to his side. He didn't cry or scream and neither did the rest of us - we didn't want the snake to come and take us as well," Khaye said. "The snake squeezed tighter and tighter around him until his eyes closed and his head fell back so I thought he was dead or had fainted. Then the snake's mouth opened very, very wide and started to swallow him from the head down - his clothes and everything. It all took about three hours because it was dark when we saw it slither away and we finally came down from the tree." Snake experts and the police followed the python's trail to a nearby stream, which the herpetologists said the snake would have used as an easy route to get away to digest its prey. Craig Smith, the owner of a snake park in Durban, is one of those trying to find the python. "The children I spoke to had excellent detail about the snake's markings and killing technique, which suggested that they were either reptile experts or had had the chance to watch something like this for a very long time," he said. "This will be the first time this species has been known to be a man-eater." He said the snake had probably just woken from its winter hibernation and was extremely hungry when the boy wandered into its path. "We have never had a case of an African rock python eating a human, but they are very opportunistic eaters and the snake was obviously hungry enough to think it could cope with a child," Mr Smith said. Snake hunts are being organised each day to locate the python, but locals have been told not to kill it, but call in the experts instead.
Zingari Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 chihuahuas pffft only a pussy satisfies my python
Dr The Singh Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Take that dog My mums dog got eaten by a python, luckily my gran dad killed the mo-fo python for his deeds!!
Master Fox Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 My mums dog got eaten by a python, luckily my gran dad killed the mo-fo python for his deeds!! That's wrong!!! WRONG!
breadandcheese Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 The second pic is a fake. Snakes wouldn't swallow an animal feet first, which the picture suggests. I think it was found out that a guy cut open a snake and made it look like he'd been swallowed. The third pic, the snake killed the guy but would have died trying to eat him as his jaws only widen lengthways, not widthways, so it would have got stuck swallowing him at the shoulders, at which poing it would not have been able to "throw-up" the corpse and so would have died a long slow death. Don't ask me if the person had been sideways. I then don't know if the snake could have swallowed him.
danny. Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 The third pic, the snake killed the guy but would have died trying to eat him as his jaws only widen lengthways, not widthways, so it would have got stuck swallowing him at the shoulders, at which poing it would not have been able to "throw-up" the corpse and so would have died a long slow death. what a stupid snake
AoWW Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Anyone own a python on here? I've got a few 10-11 year olds I'd happily donate.
The People's Hero Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 Anyone own a python on here? I've got a few 10-11 year olds I'd happily donate. I hope Thracian doesn't see that. Right, see you in a week!
AoWW Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I hope Thracian doesn't see that.Right, see you in a week!
Master Fox Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I hope Thracian doesn't see that.Right, see you in a week! Does Thracian not deem reptiles as magnificent enough compared with apes younglings?
Tabou Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I hope Thracian doesn't see that.Right, see you in a week! I cant believe nobody found my "ASsssssBO" joke funny. It took me ages to think of that!
DB11 Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I hope Thracian doesn't see that.Right, see you in a week! I only just get that. It is quite funny
AoWW Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I only just get that. It is quite funny Hmmmm, s'ok we believe you.
danny. Posted 27 February 2008 Posted 27 February 2008 I cant believe nobody found my "ASsssssBO" joke funny. It took me ages to think of that! asp-bo would have been better
Trav Le Bleu Posted 28 February 2008 Posted 28 February 2008 Kind of related story Python explodes after eating dead alligator Notice that the python's head has been blown off!
danny. Posted 28 February 2008 Posted 28 February 2008 I really don't understand snakes, why don't they just take smaller bites?
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