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Started by garbon, April 19, 2009, 08:33:44 PM

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garbon

April 19, 2009, 08:33:44 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/od_nm/us_python_odd

QuoteNAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday.

Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.

"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.

When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."

The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled.

"We both came down, landing with a thud," said Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.

The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into.

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#1
April 19, 2009, 08:42:30 PM
Must have been a horrifying experience.
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Siege

#2
April 19, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
Why didn't he shoot the damn thing?



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April 19, 2009, 09:04:17 PM
Quote from: Siege on April 19, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
Why didn't he shoot the damn thing?

Not everyone goes around loaded for bear.  Or, in this case, snakes.
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HVC

#4
April 19, 2009, 09:12:36 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2009, 08:42:30 PM
Must have been a horrifying experience.
Indeed. Imagine just trying to get a nice meal when some asshole shoves you into a sack.
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Hubris must be punished. Severely.

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#5
April 19, 2009, 09:44:48 PM
Quote from: Siege on April 19, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
Why didn't he shoot the damn thing?
He wasn't a Japanese schoolgirl , or he could have.

(NSFW, obviously).
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#6
April 20, 2009, 06:31:30 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 19, 2009, 09:44:48 PM
Quote from: Siege on April 19, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
Why didn't he shoot the damn thing?
He wasn't a Japanese schoolgirl , or he could have.

(NSFW, obviously).

Obviously that is not the butt :nerd:

Grey Fox

#7
April 20, 2009, 06:35:26 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 19, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
Why didn't he shoot the damn thing?

I'm not sure that having a dead conscriptor snake wrap around you is much better then having a live one.
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Martinus

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April 20, 2009, 06:48:41 AM
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2009, 09:12:36 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2009, 08:42:30 PM
Must have been a horrifying experience.
Indeed. Imagine just trying to get a nice meal when some asshole shoves you into a sack.
Worse yet, it's like going to a restaurant, ordering a nice juicy steak which then proceeds to bite you, and calls for his buddies, who put you into a sack. :P

Eochaid

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April 20, 2009, 07:37:21 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 20, 2009, 06:48:41 AMWorse yet, it's like going to a restaurant, ordering a nice juicy steak which then proceeds to bite you, and calls for his buddies, who put you into a sack. :P

No worries, we woul never do that to you, we know how weird you are in the sack...  :P

Kevin
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