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What It Feels Like... To be Constricted by a Python
Equire ^
| August 26, 2006
| Tom Kessensich,
Posted on 08/26/2006 9:09:18 AM PDT by libstripper
foot amethystine python in a cage in my house. He was as big around as three or four garden hoses. One day, I stuck my hand into his cage to retrieve a rat he'd dropped, and, seeing movement near his prey, he nailed my forearm. I'm a hockey player and I consider myself fairly quick, but the strike was lightning fast. He dug in and I started bleeding. Was it painful? Well, he has about eighty needlelike teeth, and he left a U shape on my arm. So I'd say yes.
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KEYWORDS: constriction; constrictor; python; welcometofoodchain
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To: RoadTest
"I guess I'll never understand why folks keep a python as a "pet".
agreed, plus taking them for evening walks is like taking your garden hose for a walk.......
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:40:37 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(The rest of this tag is written in invisible ink)
To: libstripper
I know that I will probably get flamed for this, but I think anyone that keeps snakes as pets are disturbed and creepy.
Flame away!
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:41:50 AM PDT
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jack Hammer
So... next time maybe a little Lab puppy or a Golden Retriever?I'd say this might be a good idea because this snake apparently doesn't care for rats.
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:42:51 AM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: F15Eagle
I had a 12 foot Burmese years ago. I fed it a rabbit every week or so. It once ate a ten-pounder (it had a broken leg and the breeder had to destroy it...I figured ...what the heck - let's see how big it can handle.
Never had any problems with it. We used it onstage in our rock band.
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:43:01 AM PDT
by
KeepUSfree
(WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
To: layman
I heard about a couple who had a constrictor as a pet, and one night, while checking on their infant, they found to their horror, their infant in the coils of a snake being eaten.
I was haunted by that image for the longest time.
Snakes should not be pets.
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:44:26 AM PDT
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: F15Eagle
Les Paul - but the snake weighed less.
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:47:22 AM PDT
by
KeepUSfree
(WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
To: diamond6
No flames from me. I agree. My husband's roommmate had one when we first started dating. Whenever I was at their apartment, I always had an eye on its cage.
To: libstripper
Sounds as bad as trying to give a cat a bath!
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:54:20 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: F15Eagle
LOL! I bet most people do name them that...
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08/26/2006 9:55:21 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: libstripper
"He dug in and I started bleeding. Was it painful? Well, he has about eighty needlelike teeth, and he left a U shape on my arm. So I'd say yes."
To: libstripper
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posted on
08/26/2006 10:04:53 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: libstripper
Doctors advice...If it hurts when you do that...don't do that!
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posted on
08/26/2006 10:05:02 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: libstripper
I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it very much.
Oh no, oh no, he swallowed my toe, he swallowed my toe.
Oh gee, oh gee, he's up to my knee, he's up to my knee.
Oh fiddle, oh fiddle, he's reached my middle, he's reached my middle.
Oh heck, oh heck, he's up to my neck, he's up to my neck.
Oh dread, oh dread, he's swallowed my [gulp].
The things you learn when you have kids, and there's a guy named Raffi.
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posted on
08/26/2006 10:05:51 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(Let the Muzzies travel on their own airlines so they don't endanger the rest of us.)
To: libstripper
To: Vinnie
Sounds like the other way around. The snake caught your brother. By the way, he can't just vacation at Disney World where everything is normal? LOL!
To: Thombo2
"They spew vile smelling musk."It also tends to linger for a looong time."
That reminds me. Did Cindy Sheehan ever get out of the gyno hospital and return to her "spread" in Texas?
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