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    Swallowed by a python

    A woman went to check her corn — and was swallowed by a python

    For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python.

    Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post.

    The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world.

    The snakes normally feed on smaller mammals. Attacks on humans are supposed to be as rare as winning the lottery and being struck by lightning at the same time, as Amy B Wang wrote in a Washington Post report. Nevertheless, just such a horror took place on an adjacent island last year, when a man's body was extracted from a 23-foot-long python, in an incident captured for a gruesome YouTube video.

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ddf65a8b8a65

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    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...lawesi-Wa-Tiba

    Another video and pictures with this article.

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    Poor lady...not a nice way to go

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    Read last night about their finding a machete among her belongings. She must have succomed right quickly. Horrifying to imagine. These are in Florida.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Read last night about their finding a machete among her belongings. She must have succomed right quickly. Horrifying to imagine. These are in Florida.
    I was reading that in the last 16 months they have killed over 1000 pythons in the everglades.... the article said that these pythons had destroyed 99% of the indigenous species that are native there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wheeze View Post
    I was reading that in the last 16 months they have killed over 1000 pythons in the everglades.... the article said that these pythons had destroyed 99% of the indigenous species that are native there.
    Probably 20 years back I read a Nat Geo magazine in a waiting room that highlighted a study on this. The reporter said early one morning while driving on an asphalt highway he was shocked to find very large pythons warming on the road. Even back then it was conclusive there is a coming environmental crisis.

    A thousand in 16 weeks. Imagine how many they didnt catch and kill.

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