I’m completely serious…I can’t see it. Maybe I’m looking too hard?
(I can’t see it either, for what it’s worth.)
I don’t think there is any non-venonous, three- or four-foot snake that could successfully get around a handler’s neck, unless the handler wanted it to. Think about it: the snake is on the ground, or at arm’s length. You’re standing. Snakes don’t prey on humans. Why would it try to get around your neck? Even if you did deliberately put it around your neck, you could easily pull it off. They’re strong, but not that strong. I’ve seen people all over (like at the beach, showing off their pet) with longer (about six feet) and bigger pythons hanging on their necks, and I’ve yet to hear of a report where any one of these people suddenly were killed by their snake.
A 14-footer, maybe. Probably what happend in these reports is that the snake was so big that it could latch onto its owner (with its teeth) in some debilitating what, so that he was unable to defend himself. While some non-venonmous snakes have fangs (or sharp teeth that can give you a nasty bite), pythons don’t–but a 14-foot one would have pretty strong jaws, and regular teeth sharp enough to rip into your flesh pretty badly, if it wanted to. And of course, the snake would have to have been provoked, because they otherwise have no reason to attack a person. Domesticated pythons tend to be pretty calm creatures, on the average. I suppose, though, that snakes can go psycho just as much as humans can.
I’ve seen handlers go in cages of over ten-foot pythons several times in both the Los Angeles and San Diego zoo. One guy handed the animal out to someone behind, and it cooperated peacefully.
Well, driving on the freeway is a good way to get dead, quick, without intent of harm on the part of a drunk driver. But I still do it.
I don’t know about the Thurber reference (though it is ringing some sort of bell), but I, like JThunder, was referring to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (excerpt with pictures here.)
No, you’re right. The others are looking at it backwards. The snake swallowed the sheep head-first, and there’s still a hoof sticking just barely out of the snake’s mouth. What tomndebb called a convenient dark patch where the ear would be, is actually just a dark patch on the snake. Which would be somewhere near the sheep’s butt, probably.
Don’t snakes swallow their prey head-first, usually?
It looks to me as if they have tied a rope around the snake’s neck (just behind his head), would this keep the snake from puking the sheep up? It doesn’t appear that the sheep would be able to pass through the loop of the rope.
Please excuse the slight hijack, but has anyone seen Jon Voight lately?
blink I just looked at Kairos’s link, and that’s the picture I had in my head when I posted. I have no idea why I thought that was Thurber, unless it’s because I’ve read a fair bit of Thurber but have only read The Little Prince once.
I’ll just … go hide in utter embarrassment, shall I?
Not unless you have a photo of a fish with ears.
Don’t worry, all’s fair in love and surrealistic cartooning. 
It did vomit the sheep after it was captured, but I can’t find the photograph now.
What is the bore on one of the things?
Usually, but not exclusively. I keep snakes as pets. I have one that eats ass first every time. Like humans, some like to approach dinner from the other side.
A regurgitation after eating is not uncommon when large snakes eat large prey.
- Pardon double post
- There is a video of a snake swallowing and regurgitating a hippo on the web, I’ll look for a link.
- Hi, python.
OH MY FUCKING FUCK!!! (warning, link starts video playing automatically, with sound. I don’t know how to do it otherwise.)
It only shows the regurgitation part, though. And, it appears to be a tiny hippo, if that’s any consolation to the snake.
Can you imagine if it had eaten a donkey whole?
The headline: “Python eats ass whole”
I still don’t see it, but if there’s anyone whose word I trust, it’s tomndebb.
And the story reminds of one from when I lived in the Bronx…this guy brought home a live chicken from the market for his boa constrictor and the snake got so excited he killed the guy.