Man killed by python coils

[snoop1130]

A python around five meters long that killed a man in the southern Binh Phuoc Province with its coils on January 1, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Thai Ha

 

A python around five meters long wrapped itself around a man's neck and killed him on Sunday when he tried to remove it from a cage.

 

Phuong, 47, was visiting a friend named Hai in Binh Long Town of the southern Binh Phuoc Province on New Year Day, when Hai offered to give him a python around 5 meters long and weighing 25 kg that he had raised for a long time.

 

As Phuong crawled into the cage to catch the python, it coiled itself around his neck.

 

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[Jingthing]

Truly horrible but I wonder why the snake did that. Was it hungry and the man small? Would a properly fed python kill just to kill?

[KhunLA]

Seems a bit of a lightweight (5m / 25kg) compared to these numbers ...

 

"For example, length-weight comparisons in captive Burmese pythons for individual females have shown: at 3.47 m (11 ft 5 in) length, a specimen weighed 29 kg (64 lb), a specimen of just over 4 m (13 ft) weighed 36 kg (79 lb), a specimen of 4.5 m (15 ft) weighed 40 kg (88 lb), and a specimen of 5 m (16 ft) weighed 75 kg (165 lb). In comparison, length-weight comparisons for males found: a specimen of 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) weighed 12 kg (26 lb), 2.97 m (9 ft 9 in) weighed 14.5 kg (32 lb), a specimen of 3 m (9.8 ft) weighed 7 kg (15 lb), and a specimen of 3.05 m (10.0 ft) weighed 18.5 kg (41 lb).^{[8][9][10][11][12]} In general, individuals over 5 m (16 ft) are rare.^[13] "

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[jak2002003]

More to this story. 

 

If there were other people there watching this why did they not get the snake off him? 

 

They could grab snakes tail and unwind it.. 

 

If desperate and not knowing what to do they could have easily resorted to getting a knife and cutting the snakes head off. 

 

Maybe being new year they were all drunk and messing around with the snake.   

 

Did the guy even have anything to put the snake into to take home?  

 

[JeffersLos]

3 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

More to this story. 

 

If there were other people there watching this why did they not get the snake off him? 

It's Asia.

 

Three had 5/1, two had 3/1.