Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulders?

[Kaorte]

I have a hard time believing that. Do you know of any actual studies to support this statement?

6. Suffocation
Deaths per year: 3,300

Call this one the "Heimlich" section, as these deaths mostly resulted from blockages of the respiratory system by food or other objects.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/topte...dentsfull.html

Average Human Deaths per Year from captive constrictor snakes.
0.44
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...dBR8e6jikjjYVw