Woman swallowed whole by a python in Indonesia, second such killing in a month
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/python-kills-woman-swallowed-indonesia-second-death-in-month/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/python-kills-woman-swallowed-indonesia-second-death-in-month/
29 Comments
MoonMoon@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 2y
Damn, I missed the "by a" and thought a woman swallowed a python and thought, "fuck yeah, see how you like it, you bastard!"
Need my coffee.
MycelialMass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I love this
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 2y
If I had a nickel...
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
I'd have 3 nickels which isn't a lot but weird that it happened three times.
1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 2y
Dumb question but the snake kills the person before swallowing them right?
Spitzspot@lemmings.world · 25 pts · 2y
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
When I was growing up in Jakarta, they found two enormous pythons in the culvert right next to the elementary school. They sacrificed a goat to lure them out, then when they were dated they just packed them up and took them to a local safari park. The smaller one was about 21 feet long, while the bigger one was 24 or 25. Just huge.
abbadon420@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Thoar's a very calculated and mature response to something that could literally eat you children
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
They found kraits in culverts next to the kindergarten the next year. They just killed those.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
On a side note, mosquitos can literally eat your children too. Pineapple too.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I dunno what would be a better attempt at self defense against such large snakes, but I think I'd start carrying around both pepper spray and also a stun gun, just in case.
No idea if either would be fully effective, but damn that would be a hell of a way to go, might as well try to be prepared to defend myself.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
I'll take a machete and a shot gun thanks.
scytale@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
That's if you spot it before it grabs you. I imagine it's gonna be hard to aim a shotgun or swing a machete once the snake starts constricting you.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
over_clox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
You spelled flamethrower wrong.
OZFive@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Your autocorrect accidentally replaced the word aerial bombing.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
My spell check gave me .... thermo nuclear device
Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
You mean orbital bombing?
over_clox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Damn, hate it when that happens.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
sinkingship@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Maybe it's enough to be highly intoxicated when outdoors. 🤷♂️
over_clox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Fair enough, seems a handy enough trick.
In that case, I'd probably carry around a super soaker water gun loaded with some strong alcohol, and just hope I'd be able to shoot it at a distance before it gets close enough to wrap around me.
Could also in a pinch light the alcohol on fire as a crude flamethrower, packing a double punch...
oleorun@real.lemmy.fan · 10 pts · 2y
Cue pissed-off flaming snek coming at you fast...
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Damn, you're right. Welp, guess I'll bring my chainsaw too..
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
All these assume that you'll see the snake before it latches onto you.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Very true..
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Wear a special constrictor armor that deploys buzz saws if it's ever squeezed with enough force to break ribs.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
That's awesome!
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Snek scoffs at humans' tiny bite force.
catharso@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 2y
that's why i grew so large; so i can't be swallowed easily.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
Python: .. hsssss ... challenge accepted.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Thats so fucked.