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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Makarov9 on December 09, 2002, 12:22:15 PM
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Friend of mine sent me these pics. Warning, some may find this disturbing:
Text from email:
A CREW MEMBER ON A LAND OIL RIG IN AMAZONAS WENT OUT AND TOOK A NAP. YES, A NAP. HE WAS MISSING AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FOUND.
(http://bacongum.com/images/image001.jpg)
(http://bacongum.com/images/image002.jpg)
(http://bacongum.com/images/image003.jpg)
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Yuck. How big was the snake? How small was the man?
My grandfather had the skin of a large snake he got in North Africa, I guess it was a python. He had it running along the wall of a spiral staircase going from the 1st floor of his house to the 2nd floor.
ra
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Sweat Jeasious
That looks real.
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That's really freaky.
So the snake must have strangled/suffocated him first, and then swallowed him, right?
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Yea that's what I'm thinking. The anaconda must have grabbed him around the head or throat then wrapped him up to suffocate the poor guy.
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That's how they work, they strangle their pray then swallow them whole. Same for pythons.
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I'm pretty sure they just crush their prey...
Suffocation is a side effect of a crushed chest... makes it easier to swallow too.
-SW
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No, they dont crush or strangle. What they do is fixate (crappy english translation from me).
What they do is they hold you pinned down, just hold you in place. Then, every time you let some air out of your lungs, every time you exhale the snake tightens the grip, just a little little bit more.
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Animals are our brothers. The snake was just doing what came naturally. How dare they kill it! P.E.T.A. will hear about this!
Sorry. It's not really a laughing matter. The man had family who loved him. What a gruesome way to die. They should be in our prayers.
Shuckins
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I knew that was true of smaller snakes.. but I thought the Anaconda crushed the chests of it's prey?
btw, the word you want is asphyxiate.
Thanks for the clarification Hort.
-SW
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No, they dont crush or strangle. What they do is fixate (crappy english translation from me).
Yup, asphyxiate. In this case, all the snake would have to do to kill me is look at me.
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Mak - I saw these very pics about 3 years ago. They look genuine, but your post seems to indicate that it might have happened recently. I don't think so.
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Good god, I didnt even know it was possible for a snake that size to eat a grown man. If its real, imagine how far it's jaws would have to separate..
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Thanks for the translation guys.
From what I've heard, the snake asphyxiates its victim, then before digesting, it pulls the pray out, disjoining all limbs, making it easier to swallow.
Think of it this way, first it wraps itself around the victim holding it in an iron grip. Then, after the victim is dead, the snake "stretches out" while holding that grip, kinda like we do when we squeeze the water out of a towel.
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All I said was my friend sent me these. Said nothing about when it happened. So, shut up you damn Brit!!!
I never get to play in the US/Euro conflict on these boards so I figure I'd give it a shot. :)
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Woooooow!!! Sorry Mak! :)
Saurd - yep, they dislocate the jaw, and than the teeth "walk" along the prey. After eating the young man, this snake would not have needed to eat again for a month.
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fluff'n SNAKES. God I hate 'm. very few things I hate instinctivly in this world but snakes are on that list. I'll kill them on sight every time I see them.
btw don't bring your pet snakes to my house and don't invite me over if you got them.
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so the snake died of indigestion?
why else would you cut it open - to save the dead (had to be drunk as a skunk) idiot or for a cool pix you could send around the world on the net?
yes this pix has had over 3 years of net travel
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why would he have had to been drunk?
you ever sleep in the woods?
btw- you cut the snake open so you can give the guy a decent burial
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
fluff'n SNAKES. God I hate 'm. very few things I hate instinctivly in this world but snakes are on that list. I'll kill them on sight every time I see them.
btw don't bring your pet snakes to my house and don't invite me over if you got them.
you must have been a mouse in a previous life :)
I have a 3' to 4' black racer that hangs out in the bushes under the front window & suns itself for the last 4 years in the winter. Cool as can be. I'd no more think of outright killin it for being a snake as I would kill anything just to kill it. My father-in law on the other hand suffers from the same paranoia/insecurity as you do I'm afraid.
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I'm not afraid of any kind of snake....
cuz I've got a bigger one in my pants! hahahaha....
Okay, yeah that was lame...
-SW
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I had one of these when I was a kid. Very docile and seemed to enjoy being handled. Watching it catch, coil and eat a mouse was fascinating.
This is a Rosy Boa, one of only 2 boas native to the US, and is found only in the far southwest.
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I remeber these pics on the net a few years back. Never fear Ice Cube has since blown that snake up and all its spawns.
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I'm not afraid of any kind of snake....
cuz I've got a bigger one in my pants! hahahaha....
Okay, yeah that was lame...
-SW
ahahahaha
no...not lame at all :D Are you one of the icy hot skunkaz btw?
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Originally posted by Hortlund
Are you one of the icy hot skunkaz btw?
I certainly hope not! I hate yo-boys with a passion.. werd up homee!
But their website is funny... well, atleast their guest book is. :)
-SW
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Ya be straight trippin, biatch !
Icy hot NINJA posse powah !
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I would not say I'm afraid of snakes. I feel no real fear or terror when they are around. I just hate them. Just a very basic feeling that I shouldn't tolerate the thing being alive
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I could never understand why people were afraid/bothered by snakes... although for me its spiders... they're just... creepy... although I guess my childhood had a little something to do with that... and its also probably the reason why I dont fish that much anymore... youd be amazed how large some webs can get... and amazed further by the size of the anachnid that looms on it. :eek:
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capt. apathy,
That is unfortunate. That vast majority of snakes are built rodent eaters. Rodents carry disease and are indirectly (by being disease carriers) responsible for more human deaths than any other animal by far. Snakes help control rodent populations.
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Claim: A South American camper was eaten by an anaconda.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]
EXPLANATION:
Apparently, three boys were sleeping in the jungle in South America when the other two woke up, one was missing and a huge snake was laying next to them. You'll see the snake in the first two photo's with the boy inside and the third one is when they cut the snake open to reveal the boy. You have to see this..... Unbelievable...
Origins: This piece circulates in a version with the three photos shown above as a set, and also as only the last photo (the one of the putatively cut-open snake). The location of the tragedy is variously claimed as South America (and the snake an anaconda), Borneo, and Singapore. The victim is said to be a local child, a camper, or "a crew member on an oil rig."
There isn't much to say about this one other than it's just another hoax similar to the one about a crocodile eating a Florida golfer: a hoax created by using some several-year-old photos out of context within a fictitious explanatory framework. The first two photos have been around for several years and appear to be real pictures of a python (a snake found in southeast Asia, not South America) that has consumed a moderately large animal such as a pig. (It's unlikely that either a python or an anaconda could swallow something as large as the human being pictured here.) The final photo doesn't match the other two in detail or quality and simply looks like a bad fake. Either way, no major news service has run any stories in recent months about a camper's having become dinner for a snake in either South America or Borneo.
Last updated: 23 March 2001
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2001
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
This material may not be reproduced without permission
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I have to disagree with the urban legends on this one. I've seen those photos before.
The zoo at Laticia, Colombia used to have an Anaconda. There was a 14 or 15 year old boy that worked at the zoo that got a bit careless when working around the Anaconda and was eaten.
AKDejaVu
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Why is it that so many people just take what urban legend says for granted? It's as if some unknown person posted something on that page it immediately becomes fact.
Some people should learn some independent critical thinking instead of just taking everything they read on the internet for granted.
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"The final photo doesn't match the other two in detail or quality and simply looks like a bad fake."
That final photo aint a fake. For one thing, it just aint. For two, look at the dude's foot. Ya just don't make stuff like that up.
But, it does look like it's from a different set than the 1st two.
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Hortlund - I agree, 100%. The posts that I simply skip over are those in which the originator simply posts a URL link - no original thought at all. Not worth reading - I could have found it myself with a Google search - had I been interested.
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That scenario is fake. The last picture is in no way related to the two others
All constrictors swallow their pray head first so the mans legs would be visible in the snake's body as a gently descending bump from the middle of the snake's body slopeding forward towards the head - the first two pics there is a sudden drop off at both ends of the eaten animal. The last picture shows the man's legs are whole and there is no way his legs could have been folded up in the snake..
The animal shape in the snake looks like a capibara, which is common huge south american rodent and is often pray for the anacondas. It is a big fat animal shaped like a loaf of bread with legs and perfectly matches the shart drop offs seen in the snakes body.
However it is entirely possible for an anaconda to kill and swallow a small sized human being, it just happends that was not the case in the first two pictures. The third picture is likely genuine but of course not related to the others.
This is a capibara, compare it to the shape in the snake.
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Why is it that so many people just take what urban legend says for granted?
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Hortlund - I agree, 100%. The posts that I simply skip over are those in which the originator simply posts a URL link - no original thought at all. Not worth reading - I could have found it myself with a Google search - had I been interested.
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Never said I agreed with the Urban Legends explanation and as Beet1e stated, I offered no original thought or comment. My knowledge of such events is limited and how they may have occured is outside my area of expertise. I just wanted to see the response to information (true or false) that I had run across previously. I attempted to cater to those who cringe at hyperlinks by providing the info and as demonstrated once again, you certainly can't please everyone in here, so go suck eggs.
My personal comment? The human form in the third picture doesn't look like the shape in the first two pics - wait... damn, that's what Grunherz said, so I can't claim that as an original thought. Oh well... I'm off to scan the BB for more original thinkers to model my posts after...
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Originally posted by Hortlund
Why is it that so many people just take what urban legend says for granted? It's as if some unknown person posted something on that page it immediately becomes fact.
Generally speaking Snopes also includes a list of source material that their information is based on. This isn't the case with this issue.
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Originally posted by H. Godwineson
Animals are our brothers. The snake was just doing what came naturally. How dare they kill it! P.E.T.A. will hear about this!
Sorry. It's not really a laughing matter. The man had family who loved him. What a gruesome way to die. They should be in our prayers.
Shuckins
It could of found it dead yah know...But they needed to know what it was so the family could lay him to rest...
Golly, thats scary...
Oh, and how long was this after they found the snake? cause positiong of the guy inside the snake shows partial digestion..
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
That scenario is fake. The last picture is in no way related to the two others
All constrictors swallow their pray head first so the mans legs would be visible in the snake's body as a gently descending bump from the middle of the snake's body slopeding forward towards the head - the first two pics there is a sudden drop off at both ends of the eaten animal. The last picture shows the man's legs are whole and there is no way his legs could have been folded up in the snake..
The animal shape in the snake looks like a capibara, which is common huge south american rodent and is often pray for the anacondas. It is a big fat animal shaped like a loaf of bread with legs and perfectly matches the shart drop offs seen in the snakes body.
However it is entirely possible for an anaconda to kill and swallow a small sized human being, it just happends that was not the case in the first two pictures. The third picture is likely genuine but of course not related to the others.
This is a capibara, compare it to the shape in the snake.
Hes got it...sorry I didnt read all of yer post before...
Cause in first 2 pics, its halfway digested.. and in 3rd its like 1/4 digested if not at all..
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here is another angle..of that last pic..
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While in Colombia in 93, there we were near the town of Leticia, Colombia when the soldiers presented us with some pictures of a tragedy that occured at the zoo. A young boy that cleaned up at the zoo was eaten by one of the zoo's Anaconda. The first two pictures look very similar to the ones I saw down there. This was not an area where doctored photos ran rampant.
BTW.. here's a pic of some of the current snakes they have there: http://www.junglephotos.com/animals/reptiles/anaconda.html
AKDejaVu
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It looks like the guy has a gouge on his leg from where they sliced through the snake... another little detail that would make me think it's real.