Posted on 08/26/2008 4:20:50 AM PDT by decimon
A PYTHON has killed a student zookeper at the weekend and was caught trying to swallow the man's body when horrified coworkers arrived, Venezuela's El Universal newspaper reports.
The other employees of the Caracas zoo had to beat the 3m-long Burmese Python to make it release the body of 29-year-old Erick Arrieta, whose head it was swallowing.
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"The young man underestimated the animal's instinct," said the director general of the Parque del Este zoo, Javier Hernandez.
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“When you find that gold-bricking intern, tell him its time to feed the snakes!!” his boss was heard to say earlier that morning.
No, I think it’s creepy to like to watch snakes kill rabbits.
My sympathy gland has shrunk from over use. I’ll save the precious little bit that’s left for people I care about or people in tragic situations. This guy just got taken out by chlorine in the gene pool.
It is only bad news if it happens to you.
I've basically warned my family & friends I don't do guilt trips anymore: no white guilt, no male guilt, no parent guilt (my 19 YO son is really ticked at me: he's paying his CC tuition & fees until he can show me a GPA of 2.5 or better), no husband guilt (after 20+ years of marriage, that well has really dried up! LOL!), etc.
Yeah, I guess you can say my sympathy gland has shrunk, too. If you're going to work around live animals, you better beware of the job hazards.
"Okay, but I can see he at least fed the snake before he left."
I understand your point, insofar as how really sad can one feel about the death of a stranger, but that doesn’t mean you should be so callous, and as for the gene pool, be very careful my friend. None of us is exempt from doing stupid things. Most of the people I have met who have had an “accident,” will always start off by saying, “it was really stupid of me....”
You make great assumptions about how stupid the man was being. Incidentally, I like to think that grown-ups can read about a death and not make silly, callous, and not even funny, remarks.
Sorry.
I agree, we should hold the jokes at least until we can find out if he was an Obama supporter.
What was he doing, singing lullibies to help the snake nod off?
That's one good reason for these threads. I think they make people more cautious.
Well on that count, you’ll get no disagreement from me.
My husband had a friend with some big snakes - I think one was a boa constrictor. I have never understood the need some people have for dangerous/poisonous critters in their home; but to each his own. What really bugs me is when you hear about the people “letting them go” because they got too big, or they’re divorcing, or....
Now, THAT IS funny.
Very funny, but not true. As for dying, I’d rather go before my hubby, because if he goes first, I just can’t even bear to think of it.
I believe a lot of people make such comments because they have no other way of dealing with the subject.
I knew an Army NCO who "laughed" as she described a man's death in Iraq when a rocket hit his portapotty. She had to handle the casualty report.
No doubt about that. But, there’s a difference b/t people in the midst of the trouble/shock and those who read it and then take the time to “write” about it.
Doctors often have a very dark/black sense of humor and I do too very often (it’s the Irish in me).
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