Don't look if you are squeamish - dead serious.

Rusty

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This comes off the Buckshot's Camp June newsletter.

Two pictures: first one looks suspicious. The second one confirms it. These were taken in South America. You can go to his site and read about it if you want to after seeing it.

Last warning - gruesome as it is in photgraphs, I think I'd have lost it if I'd been there in person. Up to you...

Picture #1


Picture #2


June Newsletter
 
Now that's a big snake!! Think I'll skip camping out in South America:barf:
 
Hoghead wants to know if you think it would do the same thing to lawyers and politicians:confused: :rolleyes: :footinmou
 
For lack of anything better, I quote Ogden Nash below:

The python has, and I fib no fibs,
318 pairs of ribs.
In stating this I place reliance
On a seance with one who died for science.
This figure is sworn to and attested,
He counted them while being digested

Gin: wouldn't lawyers and politicians be too slippery and slimey to swallow or keep down?

I don't think that's the best place I've seen to sleep a drunk off.
 
A wildlife biologist friend sent me that one awhile ago. I told him it just confirms how cushy his job really is.
 
Same thing happened in my country a couple of years ago. One newspaper carried a picture of a python which was in the process of swallowing a man it had just crushed to death.

In fact, it was swallowing the man half-way when it was spotted and killed. Still, it was a fantastic and yet scary picture.

Moral of the story, walk slowly in the jungle. And if possible, avoid big hungry pythons. In Brazil, the anaconda.
 
I have to admit to an utterly visceral reaction to snakes. My brain gets cut completely out of the loop.

Oh, well. Think that still makes a good case for owning an Avtomat Kalashnikov-47. You know, the other kind of AK? So call me credulous.
 
I'm with Rusty on this one. One AK on the hip, the other in hands.

Brian
 
Don't know if it's true or not.

But makes me think, I've been taking the wrong approach to my bugs all along.:o

Here on in, it's:
"Thank God! For my little black flies/mosqitoes/and deerfly!
 
I used to keep big pythons. A burmese and an indian. That photo shows a reticulated python. They are native to SE Asia. South America has anaconda. So the pictures do not match the story. However, the reticulated python and the anaconda both have authenticated histories of human predation. The pics could be real, the story could be real, but they don't match.
 
Actual cases of snakes consuming humans are pretty unusual though. Snakes don't bother me. As long as I can see their head!!!!! Many's the time I have jumped sky high and yelped when I've put my foot down next to one of Eden's serpents. Once I get a gander at where his head is I'm inclined to get as close as possible and maybe poke(gently- not trying to hurt him) him with a stick to check out his condition, how many rattles(if applicable), etc. I was camping two weeks ago and caught a baby rattler that was hanging at the lakes edge lying in wait. I put her back and, the next morning, spent a good half hour trying to chase bluebelly lizards into her ambush site. I thought she looked a little skinny!
 
Why didn't you just kill the miserable creature:confused: :footinmou
I hate snakes. When Hoghead and I were first married we went to the San Diego zoo and he talked me into going in the reptile barn to see this monster with a head that could swallow a Whale I'm sure!! Totally freaked me out. It took a long time for me to trust him after that:rolleyes: Like 20 years:D :D

He's a patient man;)
 
I'm not touching that with a ten foot snake.:rolleyes: :)

Not even a fifty foot one!!!!

I could go "there" but I won't this time. I mean after all since we have ladies here now; we men have to show some sort of decorum.:rolleyes: :p ;) :D
 
I'd rather have snakes than rats. Snakes won't ruin any food supplies or cause/spread disease. We did have a Gopher snake(I think other parts of the country call them Bull snakes) get into our rabbit cage and eat one of the youngens. Of course it couldn't get back out between the bars of the cage with a distended belly. My dad said that bunny was on the house. The next would get the snake treated like a thief. Never came back. The old man paid us .50 cents for each snake we brought home and turned loose in his tree field. Our place was swarming with snakes. Never a rattlesnake though. Even though the coastal range of Kalifornia is loaded with them. I've heard that rattlesnakes are easy prey for their faster constricting cousins. Many's the time I'd ride home on my bicycle with a writhing snake in one hand.
 
Sutcliffe, did you grow up in the SC valley? Must have been a while ago, to have been riding around with snakes. Might cause just a tiny bit of consternation these days. I used to live in Campbell.
 
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