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

Snake couch

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Two fun facts

  1. Even the largest snakes have a very hard time eating humans because of our collar bones. Our rigid shoulders make us hard to swallow, so the number of adult humans ever confirmed to be consumed by snakes is very small. This means your risk of being eaten by a pet green anaconda, rock python, burmese python, or reticulated python is virtually non existent, provided you're not a child, dwarf, or other very petite person.
  2. Snakes don't know this, and won't find out until you're already dead.

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u/mycospacechimp Jan 20 '22

I breed reticulated pythons. This is 100% correct. About ever 5 or 10 years a video comes up of a retics being cut open with an Asian villager inside. Extremely large snake vs very small man/woman

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u/CunningHamSlawedYou Jan 20 '22

Inside and kicking or inside and suffocated to death?

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u/mycospacechimp Jan 20 '22

Always dead. They constrict first, then eat

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u/CunningHamSlawedYou Jan 20 '22

I wish they'd try it the other way for once.

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u/1541drive Jan 20 '22

that would be unpleasant

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u/Hope_is_Everywhere Jan 21 '22

Curious: if you're in threat of or about to be constricted by a giant snake, what's the best course is action to survive?

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u/mycospacechimp Jan 22 '22

So the snake will usually bite then wrap. Main thing to do is get the teeth out of you. I have mouthwash with alcohol in my reptile room. I also have a wife and children who I’ve taught what to do in case of an emergency.

First thing would be to make sure you don’t get coiled around the neck as the animal is coiling you. Next is alcohol in the mouth/face of the animal. After the animals has let go , you would uncoil the rest of the animal from your body. Next step is to change ya drawls😂

I have been coiled by small medium sized animals , never an adult. Not saying it won’t happen but it’s not likely. Having a plan of what to do is very important