Snake Attacks

[redshepherd]

That site is spread around a lot. If you actually read closely, a bunch of these "records" are fear-mongering, over-exaggerated lies. Check this:

May 1, 2011/Opelousas, Louisiana: A gardener cutting weeds in a client’s yard in aresidential neighborhood encountered a 5-foot snake with an estimated 6-inchcircumference, believed to be a python. As he reached to pick up the snake, theanimal latched onto his hand and dragged the 6-foot, 143-pound man into thebushes, swallowing his hand and shredding the tops of his fingers.

A 5 foot snake can drag a 6 foot man? And swallow his hand? LOL. I'm about to die laughing.

For those without perception on snake size, my dumeril's boa is 6 feet long, thick-bodied, and I am a 5'5" girl and I can easily man-handle her. She is about the width of my wrist, and weighs 7 lbs. I still handle her gently.

October 23, 2009/Panama City, Florida: A construction worker was bitten twice onthe hand by a 4-foot albino Burmese python after he attempted to move the snakefrom a pile of dirt at a home under construction.

If incidents like drawing a bit of blood from a small python can make it onto the list, why not start listing every cat scratch and bite too? A bite from a pet rat or hamster is far more damaging than from a 4 foot python, whose head is still only the size of a girl's thumb.

And I only skimmed the top for these two. I remember reading another listed incident being some 3-4 foot boa biting a girl's finger. That's considered a "snake attack".