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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Imagine the foresight of the lawmakers there to have put an anti snake biting ordinance on the books. Those guys think of everything.
I had this girlfriend once who.......
The real fun stuff are the laws that were never taken off the books.
I once pointed out to my local police chief that the law said he had to pay me a nickle for every dead rat I brought to his office.
There was a bounty on lawyers?
Man bites snake.
Oh...sorry, I thought this thread was about Obama and Larry Sinclair.
It tasted like chicken!
Yeah but the nickle was just too much so we kilt em and left em for the vultures.
It’s the OTHER white meat.
Snake bites man - that’s not news. Man bites snake - that’s news.
If that snake got loose and killed a human being, people in this sick generation would find a way to protect the snake from being put down by claiming "it was just doing what snakes do".
In California they feel really bad about biting a snake, but nothing at all about killing unborn babies.
Dude. Like I had this weird dream where, you know like, I had the munchies and like, I saw this big like twizzler laying on the floor and I thought, "Like, wow, this is so convenient" so I reached out and grabbed and started eating it. I think it moved.
Lame attempt at being Bear Grylls...
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