[Still Thinking]

If her hands were free enough to call 911, why didn’t she just go to the kitchen, get a knife, and slice the bastard into steaks?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If her hands were free enough to call 911, why didn’t she just go to the kitchen, get a knife, and slice the bastard into steaks?

Most people probably don't have any kitchen knives sharp enough to do much of anything to a large constrictor. If this woman did, she'd have had to take a sharp knife to a writhing mass of muscle wrapped around her neck ending with two fangs buried in her face - cut too shallow and she'd just make the snake madder, cut too deep and she might cut her own throat or face.

Anyway, this woman sounds like a real Darwin award winner. Some people just insist on keeping dangerous, un-tameable animals as pets - at least the only person who got hurt in this case was the owner.