10 foot python trying to eat someone??

[ericarditti]

anyone believe this? i dont



http://www.barstoolsports.com/barsto...ng-to-sell-it/

[Trackstrong83]

All it says is that the snake was "reared back" and they're automatically jumping to the conclusion it was trying to eat him?

I mean African rocks aren't the nicest of snakes, but I don't think they're going to be like, "Mmmmmm tasty drunken human"

[ericarditti]

exactly what i thought lol, the title said it was "trying to eat the roommate" biggg difference lol

[Trackstrong83]

Now if he walked in and the roommate was halfway down the throat of the african rock, sure, okay he was trying to eat him. But I don't think a 10 foot snake could eat a full grown adult man.

[ericarditti]

no way a 10 foot snake could get anywhere close to eating a full grown man lol

[lefty]

ha, if i had a dollar for ever snake that wanted to eat me.....well, i'd be broke. BUT, if i had one for every snake that just wanted to bite me so i would leave it alone or even "reared back" at me as a warning, thats a different story. funny how media spins things.....

[xFenrir]

I saw this story too! Except it was on Yahoo.

I dunno, if a dude wanted to sell me a large snake he had in a van, I think I'd be pretty skeptical of how legit it was. Plus they probably didn't even have a setup for it and just stuck it in a room if it was an impulse buy; friend walks in and has a nasty (and very foul-tempered, apparently) surprise. The snake strikes at him and the dude overreacts and says it was trying to eat him.

Because, y'know, snakes can eat anything, regardless of how big it is. (I've met WAY too many people that have that mindset, unfortunately...)