[SuperSonic]

Python eats gator, stomach ruptures

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Sounds like the Democrat party at primary time....;^)

[billorites]

[Conspiracy Guy]

"People will buy these tiny little snakes and if you do everything right, they're six-feet tall in one year.

Long and tall have different meanings. A six foot tall snake would be a few hundred feet long.

[SuperSonic]

[Chickensoup]

A 10- or 20-foot python is also large enough to pose a risk to an unwary human, especially a small child...

Small children? What about medium and large peoples?

[dead]

Snake Swallows 6-Foot Alligator

There's an "almost" missing from that title.

[Varmint Al]

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[auto power]

((((shudder)))).I hate snakes....they remind me of democrats

[YouPosting2Me]

Two 'big' reasons to avoid swimming in S. Florida! I wouldn't want to meet up with either of them.

[steveo]

and if you do everything right, they're six-feet tall in one year.

I've always thought of snakes being more horizontal than vertical. But then I never thought they could explode either.

[spetznaz]

The above is a 20 foot long Burmese called 'Baby.' Obviously one can see why most people cannot keep large constrictors ....they tend to grow.

In most cases 'Baby' would have been released into the wild by its owner LONG before it grew to such a size. Usually it is as the article states ....when the snakes gets longer than a couple of feet people freak out, and because zoos already have more than enough Burmese pythons, they release them itno the wild (zoos have more than enough Burmese ....now, if you had a Reticulated or an African Rock they might be willing to accept them, but those 2 pythons are by far more aggressive than the Burmese, which is why virtually all pythons owned by most collectors are either the Burmese, which can get large but will usually not try to eat you; or the Ball python, which is nice and compact).

Anyways, someday someone will get a nasty surprise. It will be almost funny. Almost.

If people read how large constrictors kill their prey I think fewer would be rushing to get the larger constrictors. The cool factor would quickly become the respect factor.

[TXBubba]

Shouldn't the title read "Almost swallowed"? I would think exploding before you are finished meant that you didn't complete the act.

[CzarNicky]

It wasn't the alligator it was the thin mint that caused the explosion.

[PoorMuttly]

Make sure you thoroughly stune the beeber of anyone you then swallow whole....I always say.
You could explode. Does make the case for being slightly prepared for pythons and alligators coming up your lawn, eating each other, homeowners included, during a high water "event,"....and having an simple and traditional mechanical instrument with which to perhaps forestall one's own food-chain thrillride at that particular moment, 'er somethin...don't it. 12 ga. One call does it all. Even once is better than lots less.

..especially if we are to now suspect that our reptiles and amphibians are exploding, possibly from within eachother. For Triffids, Pods, and other invading alien species, even the Crawling Eye, and creature from the Black Lagoon....and of course those common giant radioactice crabs from the beach cave.....my Wal-Mart associate assures me that the 12 ga. is a great choice, considering. "So daddy killed the giant snake, and then a 6 foot alligator tore his way out of it, and ate Fi-Fi." No, really. [Note: thread now returned to rightful owners. Muttly back under porch.]

[JRochelle]

Now I will have nightmares. As a child I encountered a python in the wild.

[King Prout]

a combined "just damn!" and "ain't the natural world frickin' WIERD?" ping

[todd1]

Looks like the Snake bit off more than he could chew

[WasDougsLamb]

I sceered of snakes!

[A knight without armor]

I saw this picture earlier today. That long white thing in the background that looks like a board is the landing part of a helicopter. That helps show how very huge this snake is.

Reading these comments shocked me. I had no idea a widdle pet snake can grow to feet long in a year! I thought they grew very, very slow.