Quote Originally Posted by luluizzi
I read once when i was researching my snake that a free raoming burm had strangled a 14 year old child somewhere in Colorado, not eaten but fatal.
I read that article. Yeah, the animal was not kept in a cage of any type and allowed to "free roam" in this kids bedroom. The snake had not been fed recently and constricted the kid.

The humans in the story were dumb on two parts: 1) keep the animal in a cage, yo and 2) feed your pet regularly. =P

Back to which species supposedly eat humans...there's hella lot more "stories" and myths about man-eating snakes than true and verified events. The physicology of a large python eating an adult human is pretty hard to fathom; with a human laying on the stomach or back, it would be pretty impossible for even a very large snake to get the mouth around the shoulders, as opposed if the human was laying on the side, the snake's jaw could drop low enough to engulf the shoulders.

Anywho, it's pretty far fetched...and most "stories" have been easily disproven. =)