Ball Pythons in the Wild DVD

Has anybody here bought this DVD? I was pretty excited when I saw it advertised and placed an order for it right away. Waited for 14 days and nothing. I contact them and they say "shipping today". Been another week and nada. I was pretty excited at first but am kinda blah about it because of the wait. Hoping to hear that it's the most awesome DVD ever and the wait will be worth it :P

I have it. I got it directly from a vendor at the herp show in Phoenix last month.


Is it worth it? I think so. But it may not be what you're expecting. It's not a National Geographic production, by any stretch. It's more like a 2 hour long home movie than a documentary. And because of that, I've only watched about half of it. Unfortunately, I get dizzy/vertigo extremely easily and watching a jiggly video for that long ruined me for the rest of the day. :doh:

That being said...I found what I have watched so far to be fascinating...and I do intend to finish it, but will probably watch it in 15 minute increments from now on. LOL

Thanks Judy, I will be sure and pop some dramamine when and if it comes..lol!

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My opinion for what it's worth ... It's butt hurk-ting. :grabbed:

-adam

Your opinion is my oxygen

:groinkick

That said ... I do own it just to have just cause I'm a geek for anything ball python related ... but I'll never watch it again. ;)

-adam

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Originally Posted by cueball

Your opinion is my oxygen

:groinkick

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You're going to give him an ego! Oh wait, too late!!! Run for your lives... :zerb:

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

It's butt hurk-ting. :grabbed:

-adam

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Must be a Marylander thing...;) ("it's how I roll!")

I'm still trying to figure out what butt hurk-ting means. I think I am not enlightened enough :)

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Originally Posted by jglass38

I think I am not enlightened enough :)

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That can be fixed. Road trip and a few beers and you'll have an entirely new vocabulary ... as well as short a wallet and shoe laces. :sweeet:

-adam

I gotta plan that road trip soon...Spring is coming and the beers are frosty! And by the way, there is nothing to be had in that wallet and the correctional facility doesn't allow me to have shoelaces.

That same trip would also most likely yield a sneak peak at Adam's dainty balls. If you're lucky...

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Originally Posted by cueball

That same trip would also most likely yield a sneak peak at Adam's dainty balls. If you're lucky...

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Oh they're not dainty at all! I heard one of them weighs like 3000 grams! :giggle:

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Oh they're not dainty at all! I heard one of them weighs like 3000 grams! :giggle:

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It's true. I've heard Adam's got the biggest balls of them all. :rockon:

Uh-oh... here comes Jo. I better skeedaddle! :colbert: :banned1:

Seriously Adam, how do you explain opening your drawers to show people your balls and having one that weighs 100 grams and one that weighs 3000 grams side by side???

Back on track. My BPINTW DVD came in yesterday..lol! I got about 68 minutes into it and had to stop due to a headache that I am still paying for today from all the random camera motion. Interesting watch though, those "trappers" are super rough with the snakes. Digging them out of the ground with pick axes and machetes while slinging them around by the neck. Kinda hard for me to watch. Educational for sure!

Hehe....yeah, it's really hard to watch, for more than one reason. And I found myself wondering how often they chop into a snake when cutting away the dirt or termite mounds....either they're very very good at it...or they edited out the times when someone said "oops." :irkd:


Still though, it's fascinating to see them in the wild and the kinds of "homes" they have there. And I would have loved to have had some explainations of that native tribe's celebration of the ball python....why did they, and what did their ceremonies mean? That sort of thing.

Same here, I cringed every time the trappers chopped away with the poor snakes inches below the soil.
I think they sliced that rat snake on the belly :sigh2:

Yes, very interesting dances. Sorta like the stuff you would see in Maryland night clubs.

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Originally Posted by JLC

Hehe....yeah, it's really hard to watch, for more than one reason. And I found myself wondering how often they chop into a snake when cutting away the dirt or termite mounds....either they're very very good at it...or they edited out the times when someone said "oops." :irkd:


Still though, it's fascinating to see them in the wild and the kinds of "homes" they have there. And I would have loved to have had some explainations of that native tribe's celebration of the ball python....why did they, and what did their ceremonies mean? That sort of thing.

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