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Have you heard of a python doing this before

This is true. A friend of a friend had a Python Snake which he allowed to sleep on his bed, it was off its food so he took it to the Vet. The Vet asked if the snake slept curled up or straight, when he replied that it slept straight beside him he said in that case I have to put it to sleep as it is about to suffercate you at any moment. It was sizing him up ready for the kill.

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+7 Views: 965 Answers: 6 Posted: 11 years ago

Ducky

"Stories" that sound a little (or a lot) far fetched, can always be checked out at Snopes.com. That's what they do.

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pythonlover

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That is an urban legend

A five or six foot long snake, no matter how thick, is incapable of eating an average sized adult woman.

Snakes don't really 'measure' their food in that way, if they notice something is much too big to eat they don't even think about trying to eat it. While not stupid at all, snakes are very instinct-driven animals and their minds simply don't work like that. If they decide something is food, they attack it immediately. No measuring or calculating necessary.

11 years ago. Rating: 15
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Ducky

pythonlover to the rescue. :)

commented 11 years ago

mycatsmom

but don't pythons constrict their victims...thereby causing death ? They could do that to an adult human, right ?

commented 11 years ago

pythonlover

Although large pythons such as an Anaconda are powerful enough to kill an adult human, attacks are only occasionally reported.

commented 11 years ago

Ducky

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Read your "true story" right here....... http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/measured.asp

11 years ago. Rating: 13
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sunnyB

Thanks Ducky and Pythonlover,so it's a load of old tosh, and I believed it. Just wait till I see the friend who told me this story, took me for a mug again .

commented 11 years ago

west-bus

Well, I had my doubts! I meant the python, not about you being a mug, of that I have no doubts!

commented 11 years ago

sunnyB

Yes ok I know I'm a mug , you don't have to rub it in.lol

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west-bus

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Being an animal lover I don't know whose side I am on, yours or the python's.

11 years ago. Rating: 11
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doolittle

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Hogwash!!!! My python and boa share my bed when it is cold- they like the body heat! Plus, they will tell you that humans smell 'foul' and rodents have a much more tasty aroma!