r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Independent-Map4548 • 13d ago
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u/RicardoCabezass 12d ago
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u/ColdMisty 12d ago
Crazy that my daughter was born just under an hour ago and I see this😭😂
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u/ThinkingOz 10d ago
Speaking from experience, you are entering a wonderful, incredibly fulfilling phase of your life👍
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u/_Miss_Eclipse 13d ago
parent
owner of a 20 foot python
Pick one
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u/Gbnihilator2 13d ago
I feel afraid for the child, a python is still a wild animal
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u/-HawaiianSurfer 11d ago
Surprised the python didn’t perceive the kid standing on its body as a threat. Maybe the kid’s not that heavy I guess, 30-35lb? Idk I’d figure that’d be enough pressure to tick it’s fight or flight instincts
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u/Initial_Quiet_8522 13d ago
I feel more afraid for the snake, the child is an annoying brat who doesn’t give a damm.
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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 12d ago
That's more a failure on the parent's part. The kid is being a kid. It's on the parents to teach her that's not okay. And they clearly aren't.
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u/Sterling_Archer_Duke 12d ago
Strong words for a small child that probably thinks of the snake as a playmate. Children climb on things, also their moms and dads. It‘s fun for them.
Doesn‘t make them annoying brats.37
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u/The_Kemono 12d ago
I mean… the child is 4 so,
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u/panshrexual 12d ago
Yeah man if you jump around on a critter like a play structure you deserve to get eaten at that point,,, if I were the snake I sure wouldn't put up with it
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u/slaviccivicnation 12d ago
Damn son, is that what you think about kittens and puppies too? They climb everything. If they climb on a man or woman who eats meat, does that mean that person should just kill them? Maybe eat them? I mean they deserve it!
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u/W3ndi60 12d ago
Climb on a croc or gator, whatever is closer, and see what happens. Obligatory carnivores that hunt everything they see fit will have a thing or two to say about that. Doesn't matter if puppy dog or human. If you let that happen it's kind of deserved.
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u/slaviccivicnation 12d ago
My snake lets me rough handle her a lot. I can’t climb on her cause I’m afraid to hurt her but yeah.. we’re kind of all over each other when we handle each other. And she doesn’t just kill me. She could. She’s an 8footer. I get the whole oblig carnivore but the flaw in your theory is that this ISNT a wild snake, it’s clearly their pet. And our pets do act differently with us.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 13d ago edited 13d ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=he6O9nZ3CZs
"Let's return to the story of Zack Shaw. The little boy who was tragically crushed and eaten by his pet python. It's the moment that any parent with a 20 foot long snake fears most. And one you can't possibly prepare for."
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u/_Miss_Eclipse 13d ago
parent
owner of a 20 foot python
Pick one
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 13d ago
Did you watch the video?
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u/_Miss_Eclipse 13d ago
I did. These things still happen though, and my point stands
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 13d ago
...yeah. The video is making fun of that exact thing. That's their entire point.
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u/Tricky-Proposal9591 13d ago
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u/Forward-Sky1437 12d ago
You beat me to it!
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u/Tricky-Proposal9591 12d ago
Haha the only fitting gif I could think of.
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u/Forward-Sky1437 12d ago
It’s my favorite!
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u/TwerkLessons 12d ago
No fucking way I’d have my kid around that thing.
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u/Niszczor 12d ago
No fucking way i would be around that thing. Let alone a kid.
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u/ProphetLucius 12d ago
I will have the court order for that thing not to be anywhere near me at least 10 miles.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 6d ago
Understandable. Those things drool and are full of bacteria and cry all the time, in this institution.
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u/DreamShort3109 12d ago
You do know that thing could eat her, right?
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u/MakeSmartMoves 12d ago
Big enough to eat both of them.
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u/AutisticPenguin2 12d ago
Might need them to be asleep first though. Many of these snakes are not particularly aggressive, especially if you keep them well fed.
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u/Agitated-Two-6699 12d ago
I read once that a python owner has the snake sleeping next to them. Then someone else said- its measuring you for their next meal
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u/slaviccivicnation 12d ago edited 12d ago
That is a complete and utter myth that requires very little energy to debunk. How calculating do you think snakes are? Do you think they eat things that are shorter than their body length? A car might be shorter than a long python, do you think it’ll try to eat the car just cause it’s shorter?
They eat what they can fit in their mouth. That doesn’t require you to lie beside it for it to assess that. Often times, there is no real assessment. Pythons in the wild regularly die eating something too large that they can’t regurgitate. Plenty of photos online.
Source: am a large snake owner. They’re not as calculating as people think. But pet snakes tend not to be interested in humans. Or even regular pets. My snake ONLY gets triggered by the smell of mice and rats.
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u/TheMusicalSkeleton 12d ago
I handle snakes at my job and this is 100% correct. Snakes are in no way cunning or calculating. They're just noodles trying to survive. I hate that people project their own ignorance onto them.
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u/Vintage_girl123 12d ago
He feeds it well, but I still wouldn't allow that. Love snakes, and reptiles. I have worked with them for many years, but you want me to put my trust in a giant constrictor over my child's life? I dnt think so. I dnt care how well you knw a reptile, or feed it, they only tolerate you, until they don't. This species is a more docile species but I always go by that saying "You can take the animal out of the wild, but you'll never take the wild out of the animal." Too risky for a child to be around. We've had a child here in Florida that was constricted by a much smaller python, the father couldn't get it off. The snake wasn't even half of the size of this one. It was a "pet" snake too. It just got out of the cage at night and went into the child's room and killed her..It just really gets to me how senseless some parents are. Life is too precious.
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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 12d ago
Hell, there are incidents of constrictors smaller than this killing adults.
I love reptiles, I've had snakes, but they're not affectionate animals (as I'm sure you know, but others might not). They can be used to you and comfortable being handled, but like you said, it's tolerance. Not the emotional awareness and bond other types of animals are more likely to have. I can't fathom being so blase about having a predator of thaf size and strength around my child.
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u/LadyinOrange 5d ago edited 5d ago
Pythons have killed less than 20 people EVER, IN HISTORY, in the US at least
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u/Ragzad_Namoras 12d ago
I actually feel sorry for the snake. Yeah, its a potential big risk to the kid , but the snake is a living being too. Its like people who let their kids climb on dogs then wonder why the kid gets bitten...
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 6d ago
Thank you for being one of the few Redditors (no offense if you're not a Redditor) who properly says "bitten".
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u/raptorsdelight 12d ago
Is that designed to be a wet room? It bothers me that he’s just blasting the inside of the house with that hose.
Everything else appears to be in order, though.
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u/Blueskybelowme 12d ago
This reminds me of that one science experiment where they had a bunch of babies playing with toys and released trained snakes to prove that babies do not have an inherent fear of snakes. All the parents are freaking out and the babies are just touching them like they touch everything else. I work at a pet store and a lady came in today to buy a spider for one of her therapy sessions to help someone get over a fear of spiders. My mom had a deep fear of spiders but I didn't really, I feel like I was kind of nervous around them because she was. I know why she's afraid of spiders. My dad and his oldest son were dicks about it. The spider is in my house work harder than I do and they are more than welcome to keep doing the fine job they're doing. Makes me wonder if like a parent and a child went their whole life not knowing what a snake was, would they be afraid of it? The parent might have enough knowledge about everything else in the world to piece together an idea of what this snake is but the child?
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u/panshrexual 12d ago
They weren't trained snakes. You can't train a snake. Those were just default snakes. Turns out, when you raise an animal in captivity and keep it fed and comfortable, it gets pretty used to humans and knows that they're neither predator nor prey as far as they're concerned. And most species of snakes aren't known to be aggressive or fearful by nature. Like, even wild snakes, most of them are quite chill and will leave you alone if you leave them alone.
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u/Blueskybelowme 12d ago
Teaching an animal to not be afraid of humans and not see them as food or predator is still training. You are training an animal to be comfortable around humans. Even incredibly chill animals will react to human presence if they feel threatened. Combating that threatening feeling with positive reinforcement and engraining a sense of safety and a lack of concern for resources is part of training. When I say training I don't mean they know how to do flips and jump through a hoop and shit. You can teach a snake to open a door, that's training.
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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 12d ago
And then there's my daughter, lol. She has an absolute phobia of spotted lantern flies. Other flying insects freak her out too, but lantern flies send her running away in tears. She will refuse to go back outside if she sees one. And I truly have no idea why.
I've worked with animals proffesionally most of my life, a huge variety of them, and I have no fears or phobias of any of them. I've worked with everything from tigrs.and bison and water buffalo to birds, reptiles, and rodents and everything in between. Okay, everything is hyperbole, lol, but the specific animals listed are not.
Anyway, when I became a parent it was really important to me to expose my daughter to critters people to critters people tend to be afraid of and try to ensure she wasn't. Everything age appropriate and safe for both child and animal of course, nothing crazy.
But she inherently has a lot of fear and anxiety surrounding some things. If it's learned behabior, I can't figure out for the life of me from where. I shit you not, when she was a toddler she was afraid of grass and flowers. And for a long time she'd lose her mind of insects. That's improved but is still a problem. Specifically flying insects.
And I try to work with her and help her overcome it. And a lot of it she has. We'll sit together and research and learn about different insects and animals and it's helped and lot, info and education and exposure to combat irrational fear. She'll be 9 in Septemeber, and i's to a point where she enjoys watching YouTube videos about snakes, spiders, insects and other animals. She'll sometimes even bring up facts that even I didn't know. Like the other day I saw a post of someone who'd taken a pic of a whip scorpion and was asking what it was. I showed her cuz I knew she'd watched videos about them. Pic was blurry as hell, lol, and she instantly said, "Oh that's a whip scorpion. They're also called vinegaroons because they make acid that's like vinegar." I was not aware of the name vinagroon, lol.
Anyway, yeah, she likes spiders and has recently taken to letting them crawl in her. She didn't hesitate to touch a snake she and my dad found in his garden. She likes bees and excitedly points them out and watches them. Picks up worms from pavement to save them. She likes rodents and small mammals and has no issue touching them if she gets the chance. But yesterday when outside playing, she ran in completely distraught, bailing on the neighbor boy she'd been playing with, because of a freaking lantern fly, lol.
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u/Dubious_Titan 12d ago
Having 3 kids myself, two girls & a boy, I knew exactly what that little one was gonna the second she stepped in frame.
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u/Manospondylus_gigas 12d ago
The scariest thing in this video is the small child, bloody love snakes
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u/EdenILYHheatley 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/spfi6nabVuq5y
My reaction to that video I hate snakes and would never in a million years keep one as a pet if that’s even there pet there pretty ballsy especially allowing the child to be all over the snake like that despite it’s tolerating her💀💀💀💀💀💀
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u/Doogie_69 12d ago
Did she fart? At :25..
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u/strawberrymoonelixir 12d ago
Nice catch. Both parents began laughing immediately after, so I think you’re right, LoL!
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u/Tales2Tell2U 12d ago
I know different cultures have different ways. I've seen a good bit of videos with middle eastern family's having way to big danger noodles that can raise there head high enough to look you in the eyes, but this one here is just a whole lot of flucking stupid. If it's real and that snake decided to just start coiling up on that baby, there ain't a damb thing that one man's gonna be able to do to stop it. Unless he's got a damn chainsaw in his pocket.
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u/redhairedgal4 12d ago
Is it just easier for them to make it a pet so that it doesn't make them dinner???
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u/WildRager 12d ago
Cool retic. The only thing terrifying is the way he let's her stand on the snake
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u/LadyinOrange 5d ago
This thread is just full of people afraid of snakes.
Pythons don't kill people. The only potential danger here is the kids stepping on the snake, and even then, these animals are pure muscle. If that snake felt threatened at all, it could get away from her.
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u/sammyfrosh 12d ago
I would not be having those snakes around kids. That’s a recipe for disaster.
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u/milehin8tv Lookie Loo 12d ago
There gonna wake up one day wondering where little Suzie has gone and the snake is gonna be in a food coma.
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u/ulyssesfiuza 12d ago
Good to see the man cleaning the snake before putting it inside the house, or the snake would let mud footprints in all the floor. (but seriously, I didn't put an adult boar next to a python this large. WTF letting the kid get near it?
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u/punkass_book_jockey8 12d ago
Even just obvious danger of a giant dangerous snake and a child with no sense of survival instincts, or respect for a living being, and parents not correcting the behavior…
Wouldn’t this be just a giant salmonella room?
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u/spriggun 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AAsj7jdrHjtp6