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oleorunMA to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 11 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 · 11 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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    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….

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        You spelled flamethrower wrong.

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          Your autocorrect accidentally replaced the word aerial bombing.

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            My spell check gave me … thermo nuclear device

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            Damn, hate it when that happens.

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            You mean orbital bombing?

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      deleted by creator

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

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        Snek scoffs at humans’ tiny bite force.

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