Another misuse of a BP picture

So I stumbled across this story, which definitely uses a picture of a ball python when the story is definitely not talking about a ball python

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...o-survive.html

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Ben Nyaumbe was working on the farm he manages at the weekend when the snake, 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 around his upper body, Mr Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures.

"It waggled its ragged and scary tail on my mouth. I had to bite it as I struggled, one hand incapacitated," he told the paper.

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

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Mr 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 Mr Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.

The snake was stuffed into three sacks and driven to a bird and snake sanctuary, but it later escaped and remains at large.

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this is so bogus. makes you wanna slap someone. the REALLY sad part is people are going to (and surely already do) believe this phony story.

this is the story headliner....

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A Kenyan man bit a python that wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said on Wednesday.

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don't you just love co.uk sites?

Yeah,

Because only U.K. sites would be that dumb huh?

Lets try and keep the xenophobia in check a little shall we? :rolleyes:


dr del

I was reading that yesterday, didnt even notice the ball python pic...damn that musta been a massively huge ball python to be able to lift him into a tree.
good thing he bit this huge snake and his little mouth was enough to make the snake stop biting even though i highly doubt it possible that a snake would drop sumthing it coiled around cuz it bit it.

OMG. can they NOT JUST SEARCH "PYTHON" in the search bar?! CAN they pleeeeeease search for the actual snake on those frigging stock sites?

/end rant.

Im debating NEVER offering any of my images to stock image holders without an express clause stating NONE of my images are ever to be misrepresented through text and that doing so would void the stock contract and they would be required to immediately remove the image in question and publish an explanation and apology.

While this is the first time that I have seen that report of this incident, I did hear about this story on the radio this morning as I was driving to work. They reported basically the same story, but they did refer to the snake as a "Rock Python." Although none of the talk show DJ's had any idea of what a rock python might be.

John

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Originally Posted by John Marker

While this is the first time that I have seen that report of this incident, I did hear about this story on the radio this morning as I was driving to work. They reported basically the same story, but they did refer to the snake as a "Rock Python." Although none of the talk show DJ's had any idea of what a rock python might be.

John

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it takes 3 seconds of google searching to make them sure. the internet is a wonderful tool they need to make use of it.

:(

Sounds like someone was watching Anaconda :rolleyes:

I have never seen a snake constrict its prey without it biting it first.

Ya, i'm just getting sick of snakes, or reptiles for that matter, getting a bad name. I got into an argument/discussion about hr669 with a guy at work today. The dude had no idea what he was talking about. Hes one of those "well there must be a good reason for it" type of people.

Anyways, it just goes to show that stupid people with the right resources can make a big negative impact on things.