A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Welp, guess I’ll add Indonesia to my list of countries I’d prefer not to
visitdie in.I’m interested in the list of countries you WOULD prefer to die in
The one I was born in and currently live in. I’m too lazy to die anywhere else.
So, I guess the USA it is…
I’ve got some bad news for you mate…
The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to London’s Natural History Museum. They are native to Southern Asia and can grow to be more than 20 feet long.
The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – “more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
Zoo Atlanta, which houses reticulated pythons, says the snakes “have a reputation for being aggressive.”
The snakes are occasionally kept as pets in the U.S.
Last year, a 14-foot-long reticulated python was found dead on side of the road on Long Island, prompting a search for its owner.
In 2022, a 16-foot albino reticulated python that slithered through a Texas neighborhood for months was finally rescued and returned to its owner.
16 foot. With that many feet, it’s not a snake but a centipede imo.
I have spent a disturbing amount of time trying to decide if it was necessary to clarify that she was found dead inside the python. I believe that, yes, it was. Make of that what you will.
Don’t the crush and kill the pray before swallowing?
To my knowledge: they constrict, which could theoretically result in crushing, but typically the prey dies of suffocation or lack of circulation.
I was also under the impression that they weren’t able to eat humans because our shoulders are so much wider than our heads, but that’s clearly wrong so take that with salt.
Yes. I think you could say that that being found inside a python pretty much implies being found dead. (There is this one guy, though, but he failed to get himself eaten.)
However, I think it’s just not sufficiently obvious to most people.
It’d be wild if they found her still alive in there.
Cool. New fear unlocked.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi’s Tinanggea district killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.
A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed villagers slicing open the python’s carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar.
The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – “more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
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“more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
Do Americans really consider this helpful information?
marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The Wikipedia page on reticulated pythons needs to be updated.
If this were written for Americans it’d have the length of the snake in feet. Bowling lanes is such an absurd length comparison because you’re not allowed to walk on them, so you don’t really know how long they are anyway.
I want to know how many bald eagle wingspans it is. Even if they gave me the measurement in Lonestar Beer bottles I could work it out for myself.
If I assume the thing is about 40 Lonestar Beer bottles long (that’s a big fucking snake), that gets me from the 40 yard line to the 30 yard line on a football field. You can fit about 5 average bald eagles there wingtip to wingtip.
10yd is 30ft, post says 16ft.
1 lonestar bottle is 9.09", 40x9.09=363.6" /12 for 30.3’ (shit your guess on the football field was close on that lmao), avg male bald eagle wingspan at 76.8", 76.8x5=384" /12=32’ (shit pretty close again).
Though since the article specifies a 16ft snake, the snake is only about 21.5 lonestar bottles long.
I was guessing based on half the length of a bowling lane. I thought the regulation length was 20 yards. The rest I know approximate values of because I like to convert to Lonestar bottles and bald eagle wingspans every time “anything but the metric system” comes up because I think it’s funny.
I do the same thing for approximate weight in double quarter pounders with cheese which is about (but not exactly because I don’t care about that) 9 ounces cooked and assembled.
Lmao gold.
Huh. I thought that one was the one that might work, as everyone knows that Americans go bowling all the time. I guess Americans go to the zoo more often than I realized. Or is it something indirect? Like the kid’s bedroom window, which they always use to sneak past the parents, is 1 standard giraffe high? Would be nice for them to be able to feed the giraffes when the circus comes to town.
Tarzan movies didn’t lie to me after all!
No kidding! Consequently, I have decided to redouble my efforts to avoid quicksand
And there I thought the toilet python was bad.
How was theu able to fins her?
They inspected every snake with a hjman sized lump
I can see this as a Far Side comic.
Fucking terrifying.
There would be a solid minute where you’d be fully aware that you have been consumed by a giant snake.
More likely that the giant snake is in a coil around you and with every breath you exhale, you realize that you can’t inhale back in. This goes on until you lose consciousness due to asphyxiation. You won’t be awake or perhaps even alive by the time the snake decides to start swallowing you.
Snakes don’t suffocate prey by stopping their breathing, they stop the blood flow to the brain. A retic can kill a person without even trying, that much muscle around your neck might leave you a few seconds before you’re unconscious.
I believe prey are suffocated before the snake consumes them.
Pythons normally constrict their prey before consuming it.
right ok sounds like a much better way to go
Everyone else already said you are constricted before swallowed, but even if you weren’t, it would take the snake several minutes to even ingest you. It’s a very slow process. There are tons of videos on YouTube of it.
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