A snake that big could take down a small deer or a pig, and yes, once they finish swallowing (which itself would take the better part of a day), they’ll sit wherever they ended up for the next day or so, then go find somewhere more out of the way to rest for another month or more. I don’t think any of the Florida snakes have been out there long enough to get large enough to actually eat an adult human (give it another 40 years), but that 17-footer could easily eat a child.
Some of the *really* big pythons in Asia (and probably South America) have occasionally managed to down a human, but it usually kills them. There are some photos of a similar event where a Florida python swallowed a small alligator, which stayed alive long enough to tear itself out of the snake from the inside. I think there was one giant that successfully swallowed a small man in India. The other residents of the man’s village found it and killed it.
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