Akbar Salubiro, 25, had not been seen since setting off....
Posted on 03/28/2017 3:39:37 PM PDT by Gamecock
JAKARTA - A man missing since Sunday (March 26) in Indonesia has been found dead inside the belly of a 7m-long python, according to reports.
Akbar Salubiro, 25, had not been seen since setting off to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of Sulawesi.
A search found the giant python sprawled out next to his garden with the 25-year-old’s boots clearly visible in its stomach, according to a report in the Tribun Timur. Villagers then used a large knife to cut open the snake’s belly slowly revealing the father-of-two’s body.
Tribun Timur posted a video of the snake's belly being cut open to it's YouTube page.
The horrifying footage shows the corpse being slowly removed from the killer reptile as the leathery skin is peeled away.
Akbar's neighbour Satriawan said: "He was found in the location of the garden.
"Initially Akbar set out from his home to go to harvest palm. After not returning to his home, people looked for him."
Akbar's wife, Munu, was away at the time and only found out when pictures and video emerged in the news, Tribun Timur said.
Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi said: "People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake’s stomach.
"When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.
"Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless."
Reticulated pythons suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole, reports said.
That’s a pretty sucky way to go.
gross
It’s always the last place you look.
That’s a 23-foot-long snake.
Whoops; hit the post button by accident and already had the no preview checkbox checked. I can see how a snake that long could kill a man, but swallow him? The victim must have been of very small stature.
Paging Gary Larson.
There are worse ways to go, I suppose.
I have seen pictures of that before, I’m not clicking.
Akbar Salubiro, 25, had not been seen since setting off....
When a giant python invites you over for dinner, it’s best to decline the offer.
Admiral Akbar: “It’s a trap!”
They certainly made a production out of it didn’t they? How long does it take to slice a 23 ft. snake open from head to tail anyway?
I’ve seen snakes in Arizona and in the wild in Southeast Asia. I’ll take the rattlers of various kinds and coral snakes of Arizona over the pythons, cobras and little green tree snakes of Asia any day. The cobras are shy but very spooky when they notice you. At least the rattlers occasionally give you a warning.
Pretty wild. I knew a guy back in the 80s that had a 15-foot reticulated python and it was a gorgeous animal. We let it swim with us in my parents’ pool one afternoon and it gave a bit of a scare to one of the guys when it started squeezing his leg and coiled around his torso a bit. This was a pretty big dude, varsity football player, and the snake had him outmatched by a good margin. The owner of the snake helped uncoil him and there were no actual problems, but it gave us all a heightened sense of respect for what a large snake can do.
FYI - at 15 feet, the head was roughly the size of two adult hands clasped together. No way it could have eaten anything close to human-sized.
Chainsaw. Never leave home without one.
Still had on his rubber boots. Looks like he’ll be ok.
They took their sweet time cutting the snake open. I’d be zipping that snake open with a Stanley folding knife in a few seconds.
The smell must have been fun.
As read by Donald J. Trump:
The Snake
On her way to work one morning
Down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Poor thing,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken to had been revived
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
Reason #77 to lift weights and get all pumped up: So no snake can swallow you (make sure you do lots of shoulder work). With any luck, the snake will see it’s hopeless and let you go. (I wouldn’t make these jokes if his name was Joe. But Akbar?)
He’s not missing anymore.
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