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

[WesleyTF]

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

this is a misleading statistic--you have to take into account how much time people spend eating vs. with lethal constricting snakes. Everyone eats everyday, chewing and swallowing dozens or more times... If everyone spent as much time with boas and full grown burmese, the stats would be different.

I agree with you that it's not dangerous to keep a BP on your neck, but for different reasons.