Posted on 01/28/2018 10:22:59 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
17-foot-long python ...
The snake was displayed by the Chicago Herpetological Society as part of an exhibit for the Chauncey's Great Outdoors radio program, said Ellen Hopkins, spokeswoman for the show.
A handler was removing the snake from a container at the time the girl was petting it, she said.
The Daily Herald is one of the sponsors of the show.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...
I hope.
Only one handler?
Snakes have attitudes - some are really nice, and some are stuck on mean ...
Only a dumbass would pet a 17 foot snake. Hell, any snake for that matter.
Most are pretty good fried and stuck on a stick...
Here is what you do when you get bitten by a non-poisonous snake: 1. Extract snake from your body. 2. Put snake back in cage. 3. Put antiseptic on bite (and remember to check for infection in a day or so). 3. Get a beer. 4. Go to computer and read Freerepublic.
Isn’t someone supposed to holding muh beer?
NO reptiles or animals should be allowed out of their cages when displayed or exhibited at such events or activities take place. As in this case small children, although curious and fearless do not know of, or see the danger by touching the critters.
I hope the authorities don’t feel the need to put down the python. He was just doing what snakes do, it’s his nature.
Years ago, Lowell Thomas, or was it John Gunther’s HIGH ROAD showed some women temple workers in India charming and kissing cobras on the heads.
Then about thirty five years ago, the show THAT’S INCREDIBLE showed some American man kissing a rattlesnake on the head.
What they needed was one of those costumes like they have for Weiner dogs.
A 17 foot long hot dog.
Snake on a bun.
Delicious with relish.
A friend of mine was a reptile breeder. Of all the species of reptiles he bred, he said Burmese pythons were the most aggressive. He was handling one and it latched onto his bicep. When he tried to loosen it’s very painful grip it “doubled down” Can’t pull on the snake while fangs in your arm - hurts to wait for it to get tired of biting you and let go.
I (male, 6 ft., 225 lbs.) have been bitten by a six foot long python. I was more stunned than hurt. It may have been both terrifying and painful for a young female to experience being bitten by a 17 foot long python.
Yes, I do resemble that remark.
And I’m proud to say that I petted a python well over 17 feet in length!
Being a toxic male, showing off to my family, the kids were five and seven at that time.
I thought it was risky but I have an image to uphold.
The children’s section at the Brookfield Illinois Zoo, a minimum of TWENTY HANDLERS. The serpent was fed, rested, ready for a nap and all but asleep.
Yes, I touched it, but only near the middle.
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
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Lucky the snake didn’t swallow her!
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Pythons aren’t venomous. Rubbing alcohol and a Band-aid.
My roomate in college had a six foot boa constrictor. It lived loose in our dorm room and then in our apartment. Many a time I found in in my bed at night. It was very docile and beautiful.
A boa that size couldn’t hurt an adult, although a much larger python could hurt a young child.
Snakes love you because your body temperature is higher than theirs. When our corn snake got out of her cage, we would find her in the closet burrowed into the sleeping bags.
Nothing wakes you up in the morning like an empty snake cage!
Our six foot boa would measure a mouse before swallowing it. I was never afraid.
It was nice just looking at it. So beautiful.
Our Susan let a mouse live with her for several days. Susan and her pet mouse, “Lunch.”
I got tired of listening to the mouse gnawing, and I put it outside for something that was hungry.
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