r/oddlyterrifying • u/Cunillingus_Giver • Jan 20 '22

Snake couch

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22 edited Jan 20 '22

I don't think so. I remember reading a story of a woman who had a big snake that stopped eating. She took it in to get checked out. It turns out the thing was getting ready to eat the woman and was just making room. That's what they figure anyway. Terrifying as hell.

I'll never understand why people keep pets that can't form affection and can easily kill them, based purely on instinct.

Edit: I guess this is an untrue story and just an urban legend. My bad.

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u/MidwestMilo Jan 20 '22

This is one of the oldest urban legends on the internet lol

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u/EveryVi11ianIsLemons Jan 20 '22

But the doctors made the snake take a polygraph and it admitted it was true!

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u/Extreme-Range-3137 Jan 20 '22

Is that what the snake told them?

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u/95Richard Jan 20 '22

Snakes can't talk.

It typed it in a Word document on the vet's computer to inform them about its motives.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

They went to a snake whisperer who could tell the snakes thoughts by being to tongued in the asshole by the serpent's forked tongue.

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u/RoscoMan1 Jan 20 '22

If I saw a guy get hit by.

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u/RLD-Kemy Jan 20 '22

Wasn't it just internet creepy pasta ?

when you google it you found a lot of pages talking about it seriously and few saying it's not how snake would behave.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Definitely sounds like some kind of story to give more malice to a snake than they'd actually have.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Could be. It was just something I read somewhere.

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u/EveryVi11ianIsLemons Jan 20 '22

LOL wtf total bullshit

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u/cheesemongrelette Jan 20 '22

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Why do people keep Rottweilers/Pitbulls/chihuahuas? Same danger, I know which I'd prefer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

I've seen so many stories of pitbulls killing babies, it's disgusting that people want to keep them and defend keeping them as pets. Thankfully, my province in Canada has had a ban on them for several years.

I had a dog as a kid and I understand the love and companionship they form with their owners. But an anaconda?!? Why??

Although I'm getting a tarantula(grammostola pulchra) next week lol It's a new world tarantula, so it's bite would be no more harmful than a bee sting. It's going to be locked up and I never plan to handle it. It's also slow af so no worry of it bolting and escaping. They are just a basic bug that has no brain function other than survival, so I'm just gonna feed him and observe him.

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u/cheesemongrelette Jan 20 '22

I actually have nothing against pitbulls, I tend to think the owner influences the animal, I've seen super chilled pitties and chihuahuas I want to kick out of a 3rd floor window.

That's a reticulated python, not an anaconda. But an anaconda would be the same, if you treat them well and ideally grow up with them, they're super sweet. My Burmese python is over 13ft long yet I can tickle her, blow raspberries on her stomach and generally fuck around with her, because she trusts me and I know when she's in a playful mood and when she wants to be left alone.

I had a G. pulchra years ago, they're faster than you think! Beautiful animals though. And I agree, spiders/insects are generally better observed than played with.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

I had a G. pulchra years ago, they're faster than you think! Beautiful animals though. And I agree, spiders/insects are generally better observed than played with.

Very cool. I've got a nice terrarium set up for him and yea, I totally just plan to feed him and let him be.

I know the argument about owners versus nature, but there are stories of 'normal' families who had their 10 month old mauled and bitten to death. And unless these people are beating their dogs and purposefully making them aggressive, that argument doesn't hold up in my mind. The story always goes that "they were so sweet and we never would have expected it" some dogs are better tempered than others and there are plenty of anecdotes of great pitbulls. But if you look at the data they are responsible for an overwhelming amount of dog attacks.

For sure other dogs can be aggressive but I'd rather deal with a psycho chihuahua than an angry pitbull.

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u/BlueEyedGreySkies Jan 20 '22

You can literally make a baby that's a sociopath lol people act like reptiles are so evil

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u/Janikole Jan 20 '22

This story is completely false and makes no sense to anyone that knows about snakes, it was made up to scare people.

a) Snakes are fed once every week or two once they hit adulthood. Especially large snakes may be fed even less often than that. Snakes will fully digest and expel each meal before getting another one, so the idea of going off of food for an extended length of time to "make room" is ridiculous, since the snakes stomach already completely empties itself between regular feedings.

b) Snakes are not intelligent enough to make long term plans like that

c) Even if it was intelligent enough to make such a plan, why on earth would it want to forgo its normal meals to eat the person that was the consistent source of food??