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People-eating Snakes
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This is such bullshit, I've been meaning to post on it.
Basically, a number of people have released pet pythons. These have apparently established a breeding population in the hospitable clime of the Everglades. However, I think the media are greatly exaggerating the numbers and the real threat these pythons pose to people. At most you might see some pets eaten, that's the reality of it. |
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I wonder if they'll eat little Spic and half-Spic children in preference.
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Unsavoury hors d'œuvres like this .....
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Python sabae (African species)
"Attacks on humans are very uncommon. Although this species can easily kill an adult, there are only a few cases in which the victim, in most cases a child, was actually consumed. A Ugandan newspaper reported in 1951 that a 13-year-old boy was swallowed, but the python was forced to disgorge the body. In 1973, another newspaper reported that a Portuguese soldier was discovered in the stomach of a snake. In 1979, a 14.9 ft (4.5 m) python tried to eat a 13-year-old boy. It was discovered with the boy completely entwined, but after being hit by stones, it regurgitated the body and retreated. The boy was 1.3 m tall and weighed 45 kg.[7] On Easter weekend of 2009, Ben Nyaumbe, a farmer was attacked after stepping on a specimen, and was dragged up a tree by the snake, but managed to escape after calling for help on his mobile phone.[8] The last known case in which a person was eaten occurred in South Africa in 2002, the victim being a 10-year-old child.[9]"
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