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24-Oct-07, 09:46 PM
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so i went to church as i usually would on a sunday morning.. i went up to one of my friend (before the service) and he told me what happened to him the past holidays... this is freaky in heaps of ways...
it all started when his cousin "Mark" went overseas on a holiday trip and they asked him "steve" to look after thier 4 foot childrens pyton. But Steve has NO CLUE about any snakes!! So he goes one day to check up on the snake and when he opened the cage there was nothing in there!! so he checked around the room and found a snake.. a black snake.. so withought knowing wat snake it was he picked the snake up and played with it for about 20 mins.. he then put it in the cage and went back home. next day he comes back and the snake is missing again!! he calls up his cousin and asked if there is anyway of the snake escaping and the cousin said check under the water bowl (which is big enough to be used as a pool for the snake) and he normally hides under there. When Steve lifted up the water bowl there was a FAT choc brown snake with light patterning?!?!? he checked for the black snake and found no trace of him... so he called his cousin and asked when last did his children's python eat.. he said not for 2 weeks !?!?!?!
so what he discovered was that he picked up a wild red belly, played with a red belly for 20 mins and then put it in the cage with the children's python and the children's python eating the RB??? how lucky is he not getting bitten but a 3 foot RB... IMO its pretty freaky cause he would of died if he got bitten as he thought it was a python...
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24-Oct-07, 09:52 PM
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24-Oct-07, 09:53 PM
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i wasnt aware children's ate other snakes! I thought mostly venomous species only do that. Sounds a bit fishy as red bellies tend to be aggressive, let alone in someones house and being handled.
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24-Oct-07, 09:54 PM
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so the python ate the rbb or the other way around
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24-Oct-07, 09:55 PM
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i know i also thought so but he described it as being a red belly (withought he even knowing it was one).. the minister even spoke to us all about it in the service and how lucky he was...
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24-Oct-07, 09:55 PM
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yeh the python ate the RBB??? it definatly did seing the snake soo fat and it not eating for the last 2 weeks...
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24-Oct-07, 09:58 PM
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can we get an expert in here please lol. im still not sure if thats possible. RBB are generally big and fat and children are normally smaller by far then them. How is this possible
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24-Oct-07, 09:59 PM
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Interesting
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24-Oct-07, 10:10 PM
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very interesting
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24-Oct-07, 11:08 PM
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maybe the rbb was a hatchy or a yearling, childrens have been known to eat other snakes as hatchies to yearlings there a carniverous snake, also a dimond will eat its own kind, same with BHP's and olives all do it as well. so it could be possible. unless it was a different type of python that was eating the RBB
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24-Oct-07, 11:18 PM
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Lots of pythons eat other snakes... If the oppurtunity arises, and the snake can fit the other in.. It will.
As for him dying of RBB bite? Unlikely..
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24-Oct-07, 11:22 PM
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hmmm. Very interesting. Its very very very unlikly for a captive bred childrens python to eat a wild RBB. Also free handling a wild elapid for 20 minutes without getting bitten...also very very unlikly. Id really have to have been there and seen it to beleive it.
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24-Oct-07, 11:42 PM
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Divine intervention, perhaps? 
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24-Oct-07, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by falconboy  Divine intervention, perhaps? | Crock of ****, perhaps? |
25-Oct-07, 12:46 AM
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i agree. not to make u feel bad or anything mate but there is alot of flawed logic in the story, specially the fact i doubt the rbb woulda gone down without gettin in a shot or two, either to handler or to pet. specially if the guy was unexperienced in all assets of snakes, thus probably handling it improperly and causing due stress on it further provoking it. i say
MYTH BUSTED!
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