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Mangesh Hattikudur
A Python That Couldn’t Cross the Road
by Mangesh Hattikudur - September 7, 2006 - 11:14 AM

monty-python-silly-walks-5001144.jpgGod, pythons are such gluttons. As if swallowing an electric blanket wasn’t bad enough (see here), a Malaysian specimen gulped down a pregnant (PREGNANT?!) sheep and then couldn’t move. In fact, according to The Times Online, firefighters had to help push it off the street to aid traffic. Strangely enough, the snakes are infamous for bursting in attempts to swallow enormous portions (like trying to down elephants and alligators). Of course, while pythons do tend to eat a lot, they seem to adhere pretty fastidiously to the Atkins diet. I’ve never seen one order bread at a restaurant, and they always look pretty trim to me. Link via ettf.—
JUST AN FYI: the Python pictured here isn’t the one that the text is talking about! To see a disgusting pic of the referenced reptile click on the more button.

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  1. I just can’t tell if that is the snake’s mouth or an “exit wound” from where it burst. From reading the story, the snake survived, so I guess it’s not a wound, but I still can’t make the picture work right to know what is coming out of the hole.

    Any help?

    posted by Susan on 9-7-2006 at 12:06 pm

  2. I know… that pic is disgusting. I feel like I can see the head/mouth of the snake, but I have no idea what part of the ewe it’s finishing off.

    posted by Mangesh on 9-7-2006 at 12:23 pm

  3. I was just trying to figure that out myself.
    But what I WAS going to say is that this is exactly how I feel after Thanksgiving dinner. Misshapen and unable to move. I love Thanksgiving!

    posted by Marika on 9-7-2006 at 1:35 pm

  4. Today was the first day of my “Christmas Pictures are coming DIET” I think I need this photo for motivation. My new motto is going to be – Just because you CAN eat it doesn’t mean you should!

    posted by Kim on 9-8-2006 at 12:22 am

  5. heh. I’ve been having similar thoughts about the motorized cooler. Just because you can put wheels and a engine on a portable beer fridge doesn’t mean you should!

    posted by Mangesh on 9-8-2006 at 2:29 am

  6. Perhaps it is the hind foot/hoof/whatever it’s called of the ewe?

    posted by Bri on 9-8-2006 at 10:18 am

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