I just read this on another website, make your own mind up:
A friend of a friend's parents, brother ... maybe sister (I wasn't paying much attention at this part of the story ) ... well, it's kinda irrelevant really. A guy and girl living together in their own house a few weeks ago had to take their pet snake to the vet. Now my friend knows this, because he use to go to the house a lot. The snake was treated more like a dog, I guess, than a snake. It would slither around the house by itself and curl up on the bed at night. It was friendly and this guy never minded the snake even though this is a really big snake. The couple had it for over a year and never had problems.
Anyway, back to the story. The guy and girl took the snake to the vet because it hadn't been eating for quiet a while and they were getting worried. The vet checked out the snake, ran some test and found nothing wrong - so in the end he just told them to bring it back if it hadn't started eating within a week.
The week goes by and the pair are back with the snake still not eating. Again, the vet runs his tests with no clear answer. So he asks them if there's been anything different, if anything had changed? The guy responds with nothing had changed except it had stopped eating.
The lady said the same, then added that a while ago she'd woken up during the night and noticed that the snake was lying perfectly straight, parallel with the bed and in between herself and the guy.
The vet looked at them with a stark face and simply said, We've got to put down your snake.
What? They replied obviously shocked.
We've got to put the snake down.
Why?
You don't want to know.
Why!?
Really, you don't want to know.
The bloke at that stage got a bit pissed off and raised his voice wanting to know why he wanted to kill his pet snake of over a year.
Finally the vet responds - because it was sizing you up. It was going to eat you.


( Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:36, 6 replies)

Smells a bit
like bullshit to me.

Then again, I'm not a herpetologist, so I'm open to correction from those more knowledgable...

Anyone?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 8:51, closed)

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hmmm i'm not an expert, but this snake would have had to been effing huge to eat a full human- and while its maybe possible for it to kill a human you'll see why it wouldnt have been able to consume him....

For a snake to try and consider eating a human, it would have to be one of the bigger of the family (python's etc...)

Its not unheard of for a snake to stalk/track a human through scrub land (jungle)

To debunk a myth, if your averaged size male was to be swollowed head first, the snake would not be able to dislocate its jaw wide enough to get past the shoulders.

If you do find yourself face to face with a snake trying to eat you, make sure you have a bottle of alkeyhol handy and rub the drink in his eye's/mouth.

I cant have a snake in the house, my God I want to own one though. They are beautiful...can you imagine taking one for a walk!?

Yes, I am an amature snake enthusiast...but no expert.
(drain_bamaged, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 11:40, closed)

tis urban myth
methinks, someone in my course was told this happened to his friends sister
(electrogirl no one thinks about the implications of a clown su, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 12:23, closed)

We've had snakes for years
I don't know how big it'd have to be to eat him, but it sure as shit wouldn't "size" him up. If it got hungry, it would coil and squeeze and that would be that.

Besides, a snake big enough to scoff a person would go more than 'quite a while' between meals. Maybe 6 to 9 months?
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 20:34, closed)

yeah it sounds like shit
still creepy though.

Have you seen those pics of the snake stuck on the electric fence in NSW, Asutralia? Makes my skin crawl that we're in the same state!
(loki lie smith kiss me til I'm in a coma, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 3:12, closed)

tis an urban myth
i heard this on the adam and joe show on bbc6 music a couple of weeks ago when adam said it was a friend's sister.
its abviously been doing the rounds since then, cus its appeared here and my flatmate (whose terrified of snakes) came home the other day going on about it.
(kittenasacat, Tue 4 Dec 2007, 12:55, closed)