Crazy question, but...

Has a Ball Python ever killed an adult human being?
I'm only asking this, because some lame person on the Internet has wished death on me by having my BP (when he's full grown) constrict me to death. Lovely huh? I laughed when I read that.
I watched a snake show on Animal Planet a few weeks back on big snakes and they were talking about how giant pythons can and have killed people, but never have I heard of a BP killing someone.

No. There has never been a case of a BP killing a human being, at least not anything documented. And I can't imagine even a really big female being able to kill an adult human. Just isn't gonna happen.

Along those same lines, I haven't even seen anything substantial about a Boa Constrictor killing a person, although a large one is probably more than capable.

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Originally Posted by JLC

No. There has never been a case of a BP killing a human being, at least not anything documented. And I can't imagine even a really big female being able to kill an adult human. Just isn't gonna happen.

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Unless that person were a quadraplegic who fell asleep lying next to a BP burrow in Africa.

I'd be ineterested to see the forum where this person wished such an improbable fate upon you. You've got a better chance of being killed by an infection acquired from lacerating your tongue with a rusty grapefruit spoon (or alternatively a dirty spork).

Wonder if it is possible for one to wrap tight enough around your neck to clamp up the carotids and make you pass out (I remember as kids we used to put sleeper holds on each other and it never seemed to take too much pressure to actually make the person pass out). A beefy girl like Sesha can clamp some smack down - but if you let any snake keep tightening around your neck and don't try to remove it . . well you might have some other sorts of autoasphyxiation issues ;)

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Originally Posted by shavemycoinpurse

Unless that person were a quadraplegic who fell asleep lying next to a BP burrow in Africa.

I'd be ineterested to see the forum where this person wished such an improbable fate upon you. You've got a better chance of being killed by an infection acquired from lacerating your tongue with a rusty grapefruit spoon (or alternatively a dirty spork).

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Anyone who eats those horrible grapefruits probably deserves what they get! :)

No need to fear your BP. Fear the reaper... :)

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Originally Posted by shavemycoinpurse

I'd be ineterested to see the forum where this person wished such an improbable fate upon you. You've got a better chance of being killed by an infection acquired from lacerating your tongue with a rusty grapefruit spoon (or alternatively a dirty spork).

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http://www.willowdaisy.com/images/d/1738-1/snakegonnakillme.jpg

I screened capped it.

Oh dear not the dreaded....

DEATH BY SPORK!!!!!

(do we have a run for the hills, screaming hysterically smiley yet????)

You did that sleep hold thing too Matt when you were a kid? Glad it wasn't only the redneck crowd I ran with back then (and it totally explains some of my adult wierdness I'm quite sure) ;)

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Originally Posted by jglass38

No need to fear your BP. Fear the reaper... :)

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And taxes...and gas prices...

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Anyone who eats those horrible grapefruits probably deserves what they get! :)

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ROFLMAO