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Eugene

(62,008 posts) Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:06 PM Mar 2017

Indonesian man's body found inside python - police

Source: BBC

Indonesian man's body found inside python - police

29 March 2017 Asia

A missing Indonesian man was found dead inside the body of a python, according to local police.

Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil.

In the search for the 25-year-old, police told BBC Indonesian that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man.

The reticulated python, reported to be 7m (23ft)-long, was cut open and the man's body was found.

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Pythons rarely kill and eat humans, although there are occasional reports of them swallowing young children or animals.

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Indonesian man's body found inside python - police (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2017 OP

They Can Open Their Mouths That Big? ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #1

It's a stretch JHB Mar 2017 #2

OK, Now You've Made Me Angry ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #4

Some snakes can unhinge their jaws to allow them to swallow large prey csziggy Mar 2017 #3

Wow! ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #5

ProfessorGAC

(65,568 posts)

1. They Can Open Their Mouths That Big?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:13 PM

Mar 2017

Or, did this thing crush the guy into a deflated raft? I know those are big snakes, but i can't picture how they could open their jaws big enough to swallow and adult human.

JHB

(37,170 posts)

2. It's a stretch

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:19 PM

Mar 2017

Ba-dum. Tchii!

Sorry, couldn't resist

ProfessorGAC

(65,568 posts)

4. OK, Now You've Made Me Angry

Reply to JHB (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:47 PM

Mar 2017

And you wouldn't like me when i'm angry! I know, you don't like me even if i'm not angry.

csziggy

(34,141 posts)

3. Some snakes can unhinge their jaws to allow them to swallow large prey

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:27 PM

Mar 2017

NOT for the squeamish:

ProfessorGAC

(65,568 posts)

5. Wow!

Reply to csziggy (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:47 PM

Mar 2017

Still not as big as a human, but pretty darned big. That is one HUNGRY snake.

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