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Hmm.. wonder what kind of python it is... burm? retic? Which of the giant pythons are native to Bangladesh?
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RANGAMATI, Bangladesh -- Police in Bangladesh say villagers beat a huge python to death after the snake half-swallowed and killed a woman.
An official says a 38-year-old-woman was collecting wood in a southeastern forest when the python attacked her. The nearly 10-foot snake wrapped itself around the woman, crushing her. She had been swallowed up to the waist, head first.
A mob of villagers killed the snake with iron rods and sticks before retrieving the woman's body.
Link:
http://www.wesh.com/news/2655374/detail.html
I'm surprised the snake didn't get the whole body in... usually if they can get over the shoulders(which is hard to do unless you have a VERY big snake) they swallow the whole thing. It's kinda hard to believe a 10 footer got that close. Or maybe the villagers caught it before it could even completely swallow her? Meh
RachelS.
11-21-03, 09:21 PM
I'm so sure....
buncha idiots if you ask me
Oh and by the way retics and burm are native to southeast asia, which includes Bangladesh. I believe the part of the constricting because it sure can happen with that size and even smaller, but I'd say they're exagerating with the snake eatings....
zouleous
11-21-03, 09:38 PM
I don't believe this for one second. A snake not even 10 feet long swallowing a grown human? lol ok
I won't argue that a 10 foot snake couldn't kill a grown human because I know they can...but they would never swallow a person to the waist.
Z
maiden_canada
11-21-03, 10:34 PM
a 20foot retic could easily swallow a small to average sized woman. have you seen the pics/video of them eating FULL SIZED goats and gazelles? they eat things with 2 foot horns, ontop of a body possibly bigger then a woman.
whiteknight2957
11-21-03, 10:44 PM
i don't believe this.......not a 10 foot snake swallowing a grown woman..........a 20 foot snake then i would believe it...........
maiden_canada
11-21-03, 10:45 PM
o didn't notice the 10 foot part, maybe the woman was only 5foot...who knows?
TheRedDragon
11-21-03, 10:46 PM
I think that story is a load of ***** I really don't think a 10 footer could even partially swallow a human being, kill them by constriction yes; even a snake much larger than that has problems even getting over the shoulders.
Pile of kaka if you ask me... These type of 'news' articles are starting to get on my nerves, because the uneducated, ignorant masses believe this crap.
Slannesh
11-22-03, 06:14 AM
Show me the actual picture of a snake eating a person and i'll believe it. I think even a large retic would have trouble eating a fully grown human. We aren't built like most prey animals, we have HUGE shoulders comparitively that are at totally the wrong angle to go down easily.
snakehunter
11-22-03, 10:19 AM
PICS PICS PICS PICS i would beleive it if there were pics to back it up, and that didnt look fake
lordkovacs
11-22-03, 10:32 AM
no way a snake of NOT EVEN 10 feet could do that to a woman. not a chance.
Theres no way a 10 ft snake could come close to even partially swallowing a woman. Its a BS story.
SCReptiles
11-22-03, 11:23 AM
Guys, take into account this was not a 6’ 150 pound American lady. The women of that part of the world are tiny. She may well have been 4 1/2 feet and 70 to 80 pounds. I have never seen a 10’ tic with enough girth to pull this off, but I have seen plenty of 10 foot burms that are absolutely huge. I am not saying I buy this either, but it defiantly is not impossible.
jaybox_reptiles
11-22-03, 11:29 AM
thats crazy to think about but i wonder if it is true ?
Jay Box
Invictus
11-22-03, 12:08 PM
Something else to consider - it doesn't say that the snake took her head first. If they attempted to swallow a human feet first, they could very easily get a person down. At the very least, they could easily get as far as the waist.
yes it does say the snake took her head first...
Actually yes, it does say head first, and I could beleive it after seeing some of the meals my snakes have eaten in comparison to their size. My friend's mom is under 5 feet, and some where in the neighbourhood of 80-90 pounds. With some of the larger snakes i've seen she could be eaten...
Invictus
11-22-03, 12:47 PM
Oops! I have to stop speed reading. :D
SCReptiles
11-22-03, 01:24 PM
Perhaps you should try books on tape. Ha-Ha
MouseKilla
11-22-03, 01:45 PM
As read by Charlton Heston...lol
Just because our shoulders are of a larger mass across than most "normal prey" doesn't mean that by constricting and crushing the woman the snake didn't break the collarbones and snap the shoulders into an easy position for consuming. I'm not saying it's true, but definately not impossible.
SCReptiles
11-22-03, 02:16 PM
Constrictors do not seek to crush. They wish to kill expending as little energy as possible. They lightly tighten each time the prey exhales until such time the prey can no longer inhale. Then they prey suffocates. I have never seen bones broken in constriction, and I am one of the people who has seen constriction from the inside. =) I don’t think the snake could or would have broken her into a more bite size meal.
Crotalus75
11-23-03, 04:33 AM
It could be possible if she was a very tiny woman (as many are in that area of the world) and if her shoulders were folded forward. It would have to have been a hefty 10 footer though.
maiden_canada
11-23-03, 04:34 AM
maybe a midget? o.O
I beleive it, like some people said, in that country they are not large people. Some may get tall but not women. a 5 foot tall person at about 80 pounds could be a snake meal. I think you are all fooling yourselves when you think large snakes can't eat us because of our shoulders. Maybe a good 6'5" man doesn't have anything to worry about but I know for a fact that I would be an easy snake meal because of the width of my shoulders being abnormally narrow. Not to mention your shoulders WILL fold together to be eaten...
bbkaren
11-24-03, 04:24 PM
Just looks like more of that sensationalism to me.
1. They can't seem to decide who was with her--a friend or her husband
2. The "companion" tried to make the snake let go by yelling at it. (Don't these people live in an area where these snakes are common? Don't they know ways to get a snake off if it is constribting--or even bring a knife or something???)
The whole thing stinks of more snake-o-phobe reporting, to me.
My 10-foot Burmese is still having difficulty with his 5-lb. rabbits!
Please don't let my mother read that article...ugh, the phone will ring soon!
think of a ten foot snakes head.. I highly HIGHLY doubt it could take a 40 pound child, none the less an adult woman even if she was a small adult woman.
It probably happend, and the snake was misrepresented, it was probably more around the 20' mark.
i thinks it a load of bs. hopefuly it wasen;t true and the people never beat the snake ot death with iron rods man if they did i would love to it right back to them and tie them down and beath them to death and see how they like it violence against snakes should be punished by death if a human kills a ahuman how come they get like lifetime in a jail sometimes not even or get the injection and yet if an animal gets killed the person either gets away with it or a little fine or maybe 2-3 years tops in prison what wrong with the goverment man animlas should be treated equally . hopefully one day a new law will be passed when an animal is abused or killed a person pays with his life or a long time in jail not out of his wallet.
Lets keep this going. Work with me; maybe the woman was a pygmy midget, standing all of 23" tall, and weighing in at a miniscule 37 lbs. Now if this 10 pound snake were somehow exposed to some radiation, making it twice as thick as a normal snake, then maybe, just maybe it coulda' pulled this off. Personally, I won't believe it until I see the pics in the National Enquirer.
Originally posted by SCReptiles
Constrictors do not seek to crush. They wish to kill expending as little energy as possible. They lightly tighten each time the prey exhales until such time the prey can no longer inhale. Then they prey suffocates. I have never seen bones broken in constriction, and I am one of the people who has seen constriction from the inside. =) I don’t think the snake could or would have broken her into a more bite size meal.
Actually Constrictors kill by causing Cardiac Arrest in the victim, by causing the veins and arteries in the blood system to become to shallow for blood to flow, thus causing the heart to stop.
This was shown the other night on a discovery documentary where they injected Xray dye into the man's arm and showed it without the snake, then did the same with a small 6ft bci constricting the arm and the blood flow was down to only the main artery in the man's arm.. none of the smaller vessels showed in the ray.
SCReptiles
11-25-03, 10:01 AM
Actually Constrictors kill by causing Cardiac Arrest in the victim, by causing the veins and arteries in the blood system to become to shallow for blood to flow, thus causing the heart to stop.
Certainly any type of a constriction device: snake, string, or belt can act as a tourniquet and restrict blood flow. However, I think that is more of a collateral action with suffocation still being the primary objective. Blood flow restriction can certainly lead to death, but it would be slower and less efficient then suffocation. I don’t doubt you saw this on TV, but I don’t think the shows assessment is accurate.
I acatually saw this show as well. They claimed that the snake causing cardiac arrest was a more efficient way of killing. They claimed that suffocation would take longer. They said that it would take less than a minute to kill through restriction of blood flow. If it was merely suffocation, it would take much longer than that. In reality, it's pobably a combination of both. Oh, it was National Geographic if anyone was interested.
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