Posted on 05/25/2017 12:57:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A 25-year-old Indonesian man has been swallowed whole by a python on the island of Sulawesi, according to villagers.
A six-minute video on the Tribun Timur website shows villagers slicing open the python's carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar.
Junaedi, the secretary of Salubiro Village in West Sulawesi province, said that villagers began searching for Akbar on Monday night after realizing he hadn't returned from working on his palm oil crops the previous day.
Junaedi said on Wednesday that the search party found scattered palm oil fruit, a picking tool and a boot before spotting an engorged 23-foot long reticulated python.
Reticulated pythons grab their prey with dozens of sharp, curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole. They are widespread in Indonesia and other parts of southeast Asia.
Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare. In the wild, they are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.
Akbar's absence wasn't noticed until Monday because his wife was visiting her parents in another province. The alarm was raised when his uncle called him and found his house locked.
Like many Indonesians, Junaedi uses one name, as did Akbar.
Muslim... It’s what’s for dinner.
A bumble bee flew pretty close to me the other day.
That’s amazing. I couldn’t find the video at the Tribun Timor though. Can you post a link if you have one?
Allahu Snackbar.
Later the snake was seen licking its ass to get the taste out of its mouth!!
search party found scattered palm oil fruit, a picking tool and a boot before spotting an engorged 23-foot long reticulated python.
....if it was me they were looking for I would have left more clues...a small trail
of human feces...still smoldering grass heading north along with broken branches up to two inches in diameter
Akbar, huh? Good python.
I think the snake was a bit confused. He wanted ala carte - and ended up with ala Akbar.
Either old story or the 2nd time this has happened the last couple months.
I saw an article from April 12. Same island, same name as Akbar. However - Akbar IS a pretty common name over there!
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I did some work in Irian Jaya. We could here someone on the radio - almost every day.
“Akbar - come in!”
“Akbar - do you hear me?”
We never did hear Akbar. This was 20+ years ago now. Hmmmm - I wonder.....?
Give up some love for inaccurate reporting... Pythons are constrictors the prey is killed before they crawl over it. Snakes cannot swallow, they crawl over their prey with their mouth open and as they crawl the prey makes its way down the alimentary canal (i.e. digestive tract).
This snake, swallow y'a hole......and the rest a ya too.
clearly this snake was a trap
I especially really, really hate really big snakes.
Really.
I see what you did there.. :)
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