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oleorunMA to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 10 months ago

Woman swallowed whole by a python in Indonesia, second such killing in a month

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Woman swallowed whole by a python in Indonesia, second such killing in a month

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oleorunMA to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 10 months ago
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The 36-year-old went missing after she went to buy medicine for her sick child, police said, prompting relatives to launch a search.
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  • MoonMoon@sh.itjust.works
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    Damn, I missed the “by a” and thought a woman swallowed a python and thought, “fuck yeah, see how you like it, you bastard!”

    Need my coffee.

    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world
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      I love this

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    If I had a nickel…

    • aviationeast@lemmy.world
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      I’d have 3 nickels which isn’t a lot but weird that it happened three times.

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    Dumb question but the snake kills the person before swallowing them right?

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      deleted by creator

    • TMarkos@beehaw.org
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      The snake usually constricts the person or animal until they die by suffocation, due to an inability to expand the lungs. There have been cases where they eat living creatures, including people, but suffocation is pretty guaranteed once they swallow the head.

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        What a shitty way to go, if you’re not quite dead before it decides to swallow you 😫

        • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Luckily constricting snakes can feel you gasping for air. It makes them constrict even more. The use to much energy to not fully kill its prey.

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            “luckily”

            • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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              It is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    When I was growing up in Jakarta, they found two enormous pythons in the culvert right next to the elementary school. They sacrificed a goat to lure them out, then when they were dated they just packed them up and took them to a local safari park. The smaller one was about 21 feet long, while the bigger one was 24 or 25. Just huge.

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      Thoar’s a very calculated and mature response to something that could literally eat you children

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        They found kraits in culverts next to the kindergarten the next year. They just killed those.

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        On a side note, mosquitos can literally eat your children too. Pineapple too.

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    that’s why i grew so large; so i can’t be swallowed easily.

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      Python: … hsssss … challenge accepted.

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    I dunno what would be a better attempt at self defense against such large snakes, but I think I’d start carrying around both pepper spray and also a stun gun, just in case.

    No idea if either would be fully effective, but damn that would be a hell of a way to go, might as well try to be prepared to defend myself.

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      I’ll take a machete and a shot gun thanks.

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        That’s if you spot it before it grabs you. I imagine it’s gonna be hard to aim a shotgun or swing a machete once the snake starts constricting you.

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          The one thing snakes like this do quickly is grab and coil around their prey. Everything else is slow slow slow. You’d really need some sort of pepper spray in a breakable tube that activates upon constriction. Hmmmmm….

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
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        You spelled flamethrower wrong.

        • OZFive@lemmy.world
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          Your autocorrect accidentally replaced the word aerial bombing.

          • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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            My spell check gave me … thermo nuclear device

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
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            Damn, hate it when that happens.

          • Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org
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            You mean orbital bombing?

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      I used to use rubbing alcohol on my pet snake’s nose if he accidentally latched onto me instead of his food. I don’t have any idea if that would work on snakes that kill by constriction though

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        • sinkingship@mander.xyz
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          Maybe it’s enough to be highly intoxicated when outdoors. 🤷‍♂️

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        Fair enough, seems a handy enough trick.

        In that case, I’d probably carry around a super soaker water gun loaded with some strong alcohol, and just hope I’d be able to shoot it at a distance before it gets close enough to wrap around me.

        Could also in a pinch light the alcohol on fire as a crude flamethrower, packing a double punch…

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          Cue pissed-off flaming snek coming at you fast…

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            Damn, you’re right. Welp, guess I’ll bring my chainsaw too…

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          All these assume that you’ll see the snake before it latches onto you.

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            Very true…

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        Wear a special constrictor armor that deploys buzz saws if it’s ever squeezed with enough force to break ribs.

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      • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world
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        Snek scoffs at humans’ tiny bite force.

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    Thats so fucked.

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