Swallowing more than you can chew

By AhmedGeneral

Via BoingBoing: this python swallowed a pregnant sheep and then couldn’t move off the road.

Python swallowing a sheep

More info here together with a mention of these incidents:

In July surgeons were forced to operate on a 4m Burmese python after it inadvertently swallowed a queen-size electric blanket.

Humans also have become victims. In 1972 a python in Burma swallowed an eight-year-old boy.

In October last year, a 3.6m python came off second best in Everglades National Park in Florida. The snake, which tried to swallow a 1.8m alligator whole, exploded, said scientists who found the gory remains.”

I’m reminded of another incident while I was in Singapore. Across the border in Malaysia, a man was strangled by a giant python which was in the midst of swallowing him whole when people found and killed it.

42 thoughts on “Swallowing more than you can chew”

  1. Yeah 🙂 and same is the case with python programming language … its is eating more than it use too 🙂 means getting bigger day by day and swallowing other programming languages 🙂
    any way nice hunt

  4. Wao! That is unbelieveable. but amazing i fell bad for that poor sheep. I have a Burmese still a baby but she is really agresive is that a normal sign of they get tame with time?

  5. we have 2 burmese pythons in our shop, as security, (we also have a smaller anaconda, red tail boa and some other little friends, but they don’t add to the security concept). the burmese pythons are really relaxed, and tame, they come out to play around once a week, or we let them play in the office for the entire week-end if we know they aren’t going to leave us little packages all over the show. (hence, after eliminating waste, before eating again, they play outside). they are really relaxed, docile, but we treat them with a lot of respect. they are both just under 3m, and we hope to breed with them next year when the female has gained some girth. especially the female enjoys being handled, and she “wags” her tail when she is sitting with you. even the redtail boa is quite friendly, though it has mistaken me for lunch once, and bit the living cadoodles out of me without intending to be hurtful, but you have to choose your time… it’s not like a hugry or shedding snake is going to be easy tempered.

  14. THAT’S DUMB PEOPLE IN THE EVERGLADES SHOULDNT HAVE LET THEM GO AND WE WOULDNT OF HAD THIS PROBLEM

  15. people in stores should ban these pets dont let them go in the wild here let them go somwhere else or send it 2 a vet where it can put it 2 sleep its oue fault that these animals are killing people and other animals we can put a stop 2 this by putting it in a refuge or wat it says up in th 3rd and 2nd line

  16. BURMESE PYTHONS, ANACONDAS, AND OTHER ILLEGAL SNAKES SHOULD B BANNED FROM ALL PET STORES.DONT U NO HOW IN SOME PET STORES U HAV MICE OR OTHER SMALLER MAMALS,THEY COULD EAT THEM.

  17. They are not illegal unless the city says you cannot have them, which is very rare. These snakes should not be banned, idiots owning them should.

  18. fucking python that couldve been my best friend lol ha ha ha lol amanda dont get near snakes they might eat yo short ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😛

  19. this is how SANTANNA ROLL who ever needs a blow job tell her she got a big ass mouth and if you a beisball player shell do it in a heart beat 1 830 santana

  20. I’m starting a Burmese python breeding facility in China to take the pressure off the wild population, which are being hunted to extinction.

    I need breed stock. Natural coloured Burmese of breeding age.

    Any leads for funding such snakes would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    David Scott, Jiangnan University
    Wuxi, China

  21. I have a 3year old burmese shes medium not that big and I have a dog but a few years ago I had a chihauha well yeah maddie the snake ate angel my baby doggy so we gave her back I dont want my other dog too be gone !!!

  22. I have a 3year old burmese shes medium not that big and I have a dog but a few years ago I had a chihauha well yeah maddie the snake ate angel my baby doggy so we gave her back I dont want my other dog too be gone !!!

  27. the snake have to eat too.. shouldnt tie the neck like that.. so cruel.. its suffering..

  30. The snake in this picture is not a Burmese python (as reported) but a Reticulated python!

  31. people in the Everglades aren’t stupid. They didn’tlet the snakes go. Pet store owners didn’t take them with them during a hurricane and they got blown lose. Several different species have gotten lose to breed this way.

  33. As a snake killer, I must say it is a thrill to torture these large snakes and then kill them. Usually a ball bearing launched from a slingshot does the trick, although we have also burned and froze them and then broken them like tree limbs….LOL!

  34. As a snake killer, I must say it is a thrill to torture these large snakes and then kill them. Usually a ball bearing launched from a slingshot does the trick, although we have also burned and froze them and then broken them like tree limbs….LOL!

  36. It’s appalling that some folks think they are normal when they breed and nurture wild dangerous useless animal perhaps for the fun of it or just for show. It’s only folks who lack common sense that make pets of such ruthless reptiles until they or someone in their family gets swallowed before they know the true dangers the expose themselves to….

  38. I wish that python would come to the Philipines and swallow all corrupt government officials!

  39. I wish that python would come to my country, the Philippines and swallow all corrupt government officials so that they would learn their lesson! Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!

  40. …sana lang yong mga nagaalaga ng ganyan klase ng species pakainin nlang mabuti para walang nabibiktimanang inocente at be secure.GOSH!

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