Burms are slow, lazy, easy, docile.. especially as adults

Brian: "Hi Satan, how are you doing today?"

Satan: "F*** you, dude!! How would you like to live in this tiny piece of crap! I'll show you!"

Chris

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Originally Posted by Denial

but also notice how there jumping around the burm. When your working with something that large that has a temper it does not help to jump around it like that. There nervous and with all there jumping there making the snake more nervous. You have to be slow calm and controlled when your dealing with a large one that has a temper. There usually not very bad if you go slow. You cant make a snake that size do you what you want it do you have to trick it into doing what you want it to do like putting it back in its cage or getting it out. If you see the other videos with brian handling her alone he goes very slow and once shes out shes fine. The snake is not a bad snake she just gets nervous when everyone is jumping around her.

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I would agree. I don’t see an aggressive animal there. I see a nervous snake. Every single strike that she made was clearly defensive and only directed at getting the knuckleheads to leave her alone. I normally like snakebites tv but that clip I think would be well suited for an animal planet special, while one idiot jumps around doing ride the pony the other tares of his shirt an goes Tarzan on the poor stressed out burm. On another note I can’t believe that they are still keeping her in that little tub. I know that burms aren’t the most active snake out there but they are not ball pythons that spend their lives in the wild hiding in termite mounds. They do move around to some degree if given the opportunity.

I don't have any experience with burm's but I am raising maneater's now(4'). But, even I know that you don't make a huge commotion like the guy's did in the video. When the burm was out , the two background guy's were jumping around and one guy was dancing.
I would have let the burm be, let it explore a bit on it's own. Stay calm, no fast movement's. Did you see how the dark haired guy grabbed and held the burm's tip of it's tail a few times? The very tip of the tail is very sensitive to snakes. She was obviously irritated with being dangled with the tail.
Also, we don't know the background on this so called "satan" burm? Is it wc or cb, how was it raised, has it been sick, maybe it has a slight injury? Was it handled alot when it was a juvi? How is the husbandry?
I'm sure these guy's know what there doing with other snakes. But, with this video it made them to me, look like it was just for the entertanment value.

I don't think Chewy jumping up and down and screaming like an idiot helped the situation much.

Along with all the jumping around not helping, Im surprised no one stepped on satan to be honest. There were some close calls. I cant say that I would have done any better in the situation though.