Snake Attacks

[Crowfingers]

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".

You should've read a bit further - one snake is accused of "attacking" two victims via a blood transfusion

"
April 12, 2001/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
A woman died from septic shock related
to a
Salmonella
infection after obtaining a tran
sfusion of blood platelets. The platelet
donor
’s 9
-foot pet boa constrictor was identified as the likely source of the
Salmonella
. The type of
Salmonella
found in a stool sample from the snake matched
that found in the platelets. The man exhibited no sympt
oms at the time of his
donation, but had been ill two weeks previously
and taken antibiotics. A second
patient who received platelets from the man also contracted
Salmonella
but was
healthier
at the time of the transfusion and lived"