Most Amazing Snake Encounter !!!!!

[spottie]

God Bless Ya

[blackghost]

I laughed when I first read this...but how freaky is that Then I read everyone else's comments saying that how could this possibly be true? I've never experienced seeing anything as such first hand, but if you think about it...a hungry python that are known to even eat their own, could of got this unsuspecting rbb in a hold that there was no possible way for the rbb to get a strike in. The python could of even struck directly at it's head, were it certainly would'nt have a chance to fight back.

I know a rbb is nothing like a rat, but you only have to watch a hungry python strike at a rat, then apply a lethal grip within seconds, no snake (venomous or not) could survive that!

[grimbeny]

Yea i dont doubt a childreni could kill and eat a small RBB. The rbb not striking sounds interesting but i guess plausible. Interesting story either way.

[m.punja]

This reminds me of a freaky story I was once told. A lady was preparing a bbq with her family. She was bringing stuff from the car to the bbq about seventy meters away. She nearly made it on the last trip when she nearly stood on a tigersnake. It reared up and looked her in the eye and hissed. She dropped everything, turned and ran. She run faster because she could hear the savage beast chasing her as fast as it could. She could hear it just at her feet. When she reached the car she dived over the bonnet, into the driver seat and locked the door.

I don't know what was freakier. The aggresive tigersnake that could rear up and look a 5ft plus person square in the eye, the savage beast taking off after her and wanting to land a bite, or the fact that the tigersnake was smart enough to work a doorhandle....

I think there were flaws to her story

[ace#74]

iv seen people hold rbbs like pythons with out getting tagged but they were captive bred

[pugsly]

Nothing in the story surprises me. I have no doubt he held a RBB for 20 mins. Either would any other RBB keeper for that matter, there remarkably placid animals (GENERALLY)

Snakes eating snakes, yeah, wouldn't surprise me either. Cool story!

[ozianimals]

Originally Posted by Naxx

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.

Don't know what the RBBS in your area are like but the ones on my property are very placid...I almost stood on one in the back yard and before it took off in the other direction I was able to crouch down right next to it to have a good old look. I didn't want to move too far once I was on top of it....and quite often have to catch hatchies and move them away from the house and put them down the back where they belong.
So I believe it could have happened.

[Thumpage44]

I remember seeing the late Steve Irwin holding a rattle snake on his arm without it even thinking of biting, perhaps this guy has the same vibe about him that the snake found relaxing

[JoandDrew]

Just a question, (probably a silly one), but when the python digests the RBB, he is digesting venom? Would this not do his insides harm?

[Clairebear]

maybe it wasn't even a RBB. like maybe it was some other little less venomous snake. I mean he didn't know what it was when he was playing with it maybe he's just assuming now? and descriptions do tend to get hazy as the stories go on? But if it's only little then who knows.

[Magpie]

I've got no problem believing it.
It could have been a small eyed snake or a RRBS, either way it's entirely possible a childreni could eat it.

[rednut]

Originally Posted by Magpie

I've got no problem believing it.
It could have been a small eyed snake or a RRBS, either way it's entirely possible a childreni could eat it.

I'll second that, I've only ever found 3 small eyed's up here, and 2 of them were pretty docile (mind you it was a cool night ).

[Gecko_ProCs]

yea i think its believable, only question i have is how and why would the RBBS get into the enclosure? surely if theres a way in there would be a way out and the childrens would of found it by now??
but then again maybe not hahaha
ive encountered so many RBBS out in the wild and once nearly picked one up thinking it was a tattered bit of a black plastic garbage bag and one i filmed for 30mins at no more then 2 or 3 ft away, none have ever been agressive, all they wanna do is get out of your way so if you dont chase after it and try and kill it then your all sweet

[Naxx]

the part that bugs me most is that a completely snake illiterate person was able to handle a rbb for 20 mins without say, grippin it firmly or doing somethign that in most wild snakes would easily cause a strike. i suppose if it was a juvie tho quite possible it could have been eaten but dont juvies tend to be more snappy due to their small size and feeling threatened?

[Gecko_ProCs]

maybe that one was in his house for ages b4 it got in with the childrens and he just never saw it and it came acostomed to people wandering all around it and didnt mind a bit of a handle haha