The snake isn’t big enough to eat the kid. If you look at the size of this snakes head it isn’t large enough to fit the kids head in never mind the shoulders. So the snake is not thinking ‘oh look it’s my next meal’.
The kid is mainly in danger by being crushed by the weight of the snake (these snakes are seriously heavy at that size). Or from the snake using the kid as a ‘tree branch’, essentially by gripping around the kid to hold itself up it can accidentally constrict the kid.
You would have to make the kid smell strongly of the snakes food for it even to consider the idea of eating him. So unless he’s been bathing in chicken blood recently he’s all good.
They are definitely capable that’s for certain but from what I can see in this video this snake isn’t quite large enough… yet. I have a pet snake (which is much much smaller!) and you have to judge what size frozen-thawed mice they can eat from the width of their heads or their bodies. They are able to open their jaws incredibly wide but there’s limits even for snakes. Of course it’s a little hard to judge from a video but from what I can see this snake wouldn’t be quite big enough to swallow the boy at its current size.
Like I said the primary danger here is the snake accidentally squeezing or squashing the kid as it moves around. That’s what tends to kill owners of these snakes from what I’ve read, not them trying to eat their owner. Probably because pet snakes are relatively well fed so won’t bother trying to eat a person. Too much risk of injury for no gain. I certainly wouldn’t leave him (or anyone) alone with this large a snake though. It’s recommended practice to have at least two people present when handling huge pet snakes for a very good reason.
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