Posted on 09/03/2011 4:43:56 PM PDT by Steelfish
American Man Arrested For Biting Snake A US man is in custody after he bit a pet python in what California police said was an apparently unprovoked attack.
The snake, measuring 3 to 4 feet in length, is recovering after a vet stitched it up Photo: AP Photo/Gina Knepp 03 Sep 2011
The suspect, David Senk, 54, was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully maiming or mutilating a reptile, Sacramento police said. The badly injured snake underwent surgery.
Senk said he had no recollection of the incident after blacking out from drinking but felt "horrible as hell about it."
Asked why he might have bitten the snake, Senk replied: "I get drunk, I get crazy. I don't know. I've been an alcoholic for a long time." Senk was taken into custody after police, responding to a report of an assault, found him lying on the ground with blood on his face.
Officers were then approached by another man and a woman who told them Senk had just taken two large bites out of their python when they let him hold the snake.
"There was nothing to indicate that the snake provoked him at all. He (Senk) just out of the blue took a bite," the police spokesman said. "From what I understand, he didn't say anything. He was pretty incoherent." The snake, measuring 3 to 4 feet in length, is recovering after a vet stitched it up.
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WELL... That’s what it would be doing!!! You do realize snakes don’t have morals....they eat and make more snakes...end of story!!!
Special Forces wannabe.
But “unlawfully maiming or mutilating a reptile?” That’s fine for the toads, but what about the frogs? Don’t amphibians deserve protection too?
Had to be drunk on whiskey. They say that whiskey is good for snake bite.
I think the snake told the guy to “bite me” and so he did ! LOL !
His breath could have given the python ethyl poisoning, so yes
Until relatively recently it was illegal for an Indian (native American) to spend the night in Boston. The law dates back to King Phillips War, when Indians infiltrated New Engand cities and rose up and slaughtered the inhabitants. Providence was abandoned and burned to the ground, many settlements west of Boston were annihilated.
Toads aren’t reptiles. I think frogs’ legs are quite a delicacy though.
Darn. Another cherished fact from childhood, blown.
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