Quote Originally Posted by Aryia View Post
But it's true! Given the right circumstances anything can kill you. I guess you could choke to death if you tried to swallow a baby bird or catch the bird flu from it even though it's virtually non-existent in the States. I was barred from bringing 1 lb dumbbells onto an international flight, cause the security personal thought i would smash someone to death with them. Yes I actually asked, and then when I asked her if she would take my giant textbook that's at least 5-7 times as heavy away too her supervisor ordered her to let me through with all my stuff since I guess he saw how stupid the conversation was. But yes, a ball python can kill you. I guess if you are really high on drugs or dead drunk, there might be a one in a million chance your BP wants to smell all that disgusting crap and wrap itself around your neck and constrict you while you're cold out. To me it sounds like a deed that would belong into the Darwin's Awards, I wish people that heard BS like that would see how ridiculous it is instead of fearing snakes even more.
true, BPs can kill you. like, when an adult BP dies, and you freeze it and then throw it from the empire state building, that could be quite deadly. or when a BP bites you and decide to go play in dirt with the open wounds, you might get tetanus.

bounds of reason. most kitchen utensils can be quite deadly. water can be deadly. and when someone is totally unconscious from drugs, a bunch of chickens or rats can be deadly.

the question is: under what circumstances does it make sense to point out that it can be deadly? when a person is for whatever reason completely defenseless, i think a BP would be much less of a problem than a bunch of hungry chickens. a BP would most likely ignore it, or go for the body heat, while chickens would really see that person as food and go for it once they overcome their fear.

but when there is a story about chickens, (or cats or horses or rats or whatever) they never point out that they would be capable of killing a person under the right circumstances.