Snakes!

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‘Ma’am, you have a what?!’: Unheard of 911 call in Ohio after boa constrictor attacks owner
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, July 28, 2017 08:49 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 28, 2017 09:37 AM EDT
SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio — Authorities say firefighters have rescued an Ohio woman after a boa constrictor wrapped around her neck and began biting her face.
The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports the unnamed 45-year-old Sheffield Lake woman called 911 Thursday afternoon asking for help.
“Oh, please! I have a boa constrictor stuck to my face!” the woman tells a dispatcher.
“Ma’am, you have a what!?” the confused dispatcher responds. “You’re outside with a boa constrictor stuck to your face?”
In a panic, the woman describes the scene.
“There’s blood everywhere,” she says. “Oh, God! Hurry! Please!”
Hear the entire 911 call:
The boa constrictor was one of two snakes she’d rescued the day before, the woman says.
Firefighters found the woman lying in the driveway of her home with the snake wrapped around her neck and biting her.
A firefighter used a pocketknife to cut off the snake’s head.
The woman was taken to a hospital for apparent non-life threatening injuries.
The woman had 11 snakes, including nine ball pythons and the boa constrictors.
Sheffield Lake is about 25 miles (40.kilometres) west of Cleveland in Lorain County.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51HY17Hgd_o
‘Ma’am, you have a what?!’: Unheard of 911 call in Ohio after boa constrictor at

 

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Mississauga man tried to ship live snakes in mail: U.S. officials
ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:33 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:08 PM EDT
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Federal prosecutors in New York say a Canadian man attempted to ship live snakes to China through the mail.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Buffalo says 28-year-old Chaoyi Le, of Mississauga was taken into custody Friday in Los Angeles after getting off a flight from Shanghai.
Prosecutors say he previously was found with 55 live reptiles — including ball pythons — in Chicago during a trip from Toronto to China in February 2014. Officials say many of the reptiles are protected under international law.
Two months later he was stopped while entering Canada from the U.S. and was found to have three albino Western hog-nosed snakes hidden in his socks.
Officials say he faces charges and will be sent back to Buffalo.
It wasn’t clear if he has a lawyer.
Mississauga man tried to ship live snakes in mail: U.S. officials | Toronto & GT

 

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Broken-hearted snake handler livestreams suicide
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 06:52 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 07:00 PM EDT
Video blogger Arslan Valeev — a well-known Russian snake expert — let his deadly black mamba bite his hand as he livestreamed his suicide.
Viewers then watched as the 31-year-old deteriorated before their eyes.
Valeev had been devastated by the recent break-up of his marriage and showed viewers where the poisonous reptile had bit him.
Eventually, his limbs became numb and viewers didn’t see the former zoo employee’s actual demise — it’s believed he died minutes after the livestream ended.
The snake handler had recently accused his wife Ekaterina ‘Katya’ Pyatyzhkina of cheating on him and he allegedly battered her for it and she suffered a concussion. Valeev later publicly apologized.
A pal told Russian media that Valeev remained sad over the split.
And on the livestream, he gave out her phone number begging her to visit him before he died.
“This is Katya’s number, if someone manages to call her, if she has time to come to me and see me, I would be happy,” he told his thousands of viewers.
“In fact I’m already dying. Farewell. I would be glad to see Katya. Damn, I’m shaking.”
One viewer called an ambulance but by the time it arrived, it was too late.
But before his fatal production, Valeev was open when it came to his searing heartache.
“I cannot describe in words the extent of my disappointment with myself,” he said. “I cannot describe the shock that I experience every day when I wake up in this new world without someone I have lost and deserved to lose, who I was with a couple of seconds ago in a dream.”
He added: “If it makes you feel better, it hurts and I’m lonely. I know what to do, I’ve heard a lot of advice, but the feeling of emptiness and a broken life can only pass with time.
“Miracles do not happen, we do not live in a fairy tale.”
Ekaterina ‘Katya’ Pyatyzhkina.

Broken-hearted snake handler livestreams suicide | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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WATCH: Campus cop freaks out while battling snake with trash can
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:29 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:38 AM EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. — An online video shows a jittery police officer who’s afraid of snakes using a trash can to try to catch one at the University of Central Florida.
Carl Metzger, the deputy chief of the university’s police department, calls the video humorous. He added that the incident, which occurred earlier this month on the Orlando campus, is a result of ophidiophobia — the fear of snakes.
Metzger tells local news outlets everyone got a good laugh but it’s “obvious that that particular officer is uncomfortable with snakes.”
The video shows the officer jumping around, trash can in hand, trying to capture the elusive black snake.
Metzger says the officer, whose name wasn’t released, did his best “and ultimately accomplished his mission” of getting the snake out of the building.
A jittery police officer tires to catch a snake with a trash can recently at the University of Central Florida's Orlando campus. (Animalkind/Facebook)

http://facebook.com/animalkindvideos/videos/vb.469694573429026/495517644180052
WATCH: Campus cop freaks out while battling snake with trash can | World | News

 

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Mississauga man with snakes in socks pleads guilty
The Canadian Press
First posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 07:35 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 07:49 AM EDT
BUFFALO - An Ontario man who was caught trying to smuggle snakes into Canada in his socks has pleaded guilty in an American court.
Chaoyi Le, 28, is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to violating wildlife regulations, according to prosecutors in Buffalo, N.Y.
Le’s lawyer, Victor Sherman, said he’s requesting a more lenient sentence of time served.
Le, described in court documents as a resident of Mississauga, Ont., was arrested in April 2014 at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge in western New York.
According to the complaint filed against him, Le was discovered with three western hog-nosed snakes concealed in his socks.
Le initially told customs agents he found the snakes in a New York park, but later admitted to purchasing them for about $500, the complaint said.
He had also mailed a package of snakes to China from the U.S. on the same day, court documents said.
The arrest marked the end of Le’s brief but active time sending live reptiles via mail, the documents said. The complaint said he began doing so in 2013, making several crossings from Ontario to the U.S.
The complaint said Le became a regular customer at a UPS store somewhere in the Buffalo area, where he would travel to send and receive packages.
Le came to the attention of customs officials once before the April 2014 incident, it said.
While en route to China from Toronto in February 2014, Le was stopped at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and was found to be travelling with an assortment of 55 reptiles, including pythons and turtles.
Le was charged in Canadian court with various wildlife violations, according to court documents.
After an initial court appearance, Le flew to China in the summer of 2014 — after his April arrest — and informed customs officials he would be there for the next year or two and would not be attending scheduled Canadian court dates, documents said.
The charges in Canada were ultimately withdrawn in July 2015, according to the American complaint.
Le was then arrested by U.S. authorities this past August when he flew to Los Angeles from Shanghai.
Sherman said Le is set to be sentenced on Oct. 30.
Mississauga man with snakes in socks pleads guilty | Toronto & GTA | News | Toro

 

[MHz]

There should be a truck coming up at a police auction soon, just sayin, . . .

 

[Curious Cdn]

Chaoyi Le, 28

Were those cooking snakes or Chinese "medicine" snakes?

 

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Florida python swallows deer fawn
Associated Press
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Published:
March 3, 2018
Updated:
March 3, 2018 3:37 PM EST
Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida say a Burmese python had devoured a white-tailed deer fawn. (Conservancy of Southwest Florida)
Warning: This story contains a graphic image.
NAPLES, Fla. — Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they’d never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
The wildlife biologists tracking the slithery creatures stumbled upon bloated snake in Collier Seminole State Park, and when they moved the creature it began regurgitating a white-tailed deer fawn.
Biologist Ian Bartoszek told the Naples Daily News that the fawn weighed 35 pounds; the snake 31.5.
(Conservancy of Southwest Florida)
“We were sitting there just trying to process that an animal this size could get its head around what turned out to be a deer,” Bartoszek said. “It’s surreal to see that in the field.”
Bartoszek said it was the largest python-to-prey weight difference he had measured.
Burmese pythons, which can grow nearly 20-feet long, were brought to South Florida as pets in the late 1970s. They were released into the wild, and have become a problematic invasive species.
White-tailed deer are an important food source for Florida’s endangered panthers, so the researchers are concerned the pervasive snakes could also impact the health of the big cats.
If the snake had been left in the wild, it would have digested the entire deer, Bartoszek said.
He said the predator-to-prey size ratio stunned his team.
“It showed my team and myself what we were actually dealing with out there, what this python is capable of,” he told the newspaper.

http://naplesnews.com/story/news/en...nd-deer-collier-seminole-state-park/382214002
Florida python swallows deer fawn | Toronto Sun
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The adder is Britain's only venomous snake. The word "adder" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "nædre", which means "snake", "serpent." It ended up becoming "a nadder" but, in the 14th Century, it was rebracketed to "an adder" (just as "a napron" became "an apron" and "a nompere" changed into "an umpire").

 

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Texas man bitten by severed rattlesnake head almost dies | Toronto Sun

 

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TEXAS TOUGH: Deputy wrangles snake with bare hands after it slithers out of toilet | Toronto Sun

 

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GRAPHIC IMAGE: 7-metre-long python swallows Indonesian woman
Associated Press
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Published:
June 16, 2018
Updated:
June 16, 2018 9:40 AM EDT
(STRSTR/AFP/Getty Images)
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A 7-metre-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday.
The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on Thursday evening, according to the village chief, Faris.
On Friday, her family went to look for her at the garden but found only her belongings, including sandals and a flashlight, said Faris, who uses a single name.
The family and villagers launched a search for the woman, and found the snake with a bloated belly about 50 metres (yards) from where her belongings were found.
The villagers killed the snake and carried it to the village.
“When they cut open the snake’s belly they found Tiba’s body still intact with all her clothes,” Faris said. “She was swallowed first from her head.”
Videos posted on some websites showed villagers slicing open the python’s carcass to reveal the woman’s body.
The body of 54-year-old Wa Tiba (bottom) lies next to a python after villagers cut open the seven-metre (23-foot) snake which was found bloated in the village of Persiapan Lawela on the island of Muna, offshore of Sulawesi on June 16, 2018. (STRSTR/AFP/Getty Images)
Faris said the victim’s garden, about 1 kilometre (half a mile) from her house, is located in a rocky area with caves and cliffs believed to contain many snakes.
Reticulated pythons, which are widespread in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole.
Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare. In the wild they are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.
It was the second python attack on a human in Indonesia since March last year, when a 25-year-old man was swallowed whole by a python in West Sulawesi province.

GRAPHIC IMAGE: 7-metre-long python swallows Indonesian woman | Toronto Sun
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黑加法器是英格兰唯一的毒蛇 (The black adder is the only venomous snake in England)

 

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Snake in the can: Lost pet found in toilet miles away from where she went missing
Associated Press
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Published:
July 20, 2018
Updated:
July 20, 2018 5:25 PM EDT
In this Thursday, July 19, 2018 photo, a snake peaks out in a toilet at James Hooper's home in Virginia Beach, Va. (James Hooper via AP)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A snake fished from a toilet in Virginia has been claimed by owners who say she went missing miles away.
James Hooper of Virginia Beach says he thought it was a prank when he spotted the snake in the toilet Thursday, but then he saw the tongue moving. Hooper says his roommate, Kenny Spruill, used a fishing pole with a noose to pull the snake out.
In this Thursday, July 19, 2018 photo, Kenny Spruill and and unidentified officer pose with a snake after Spruill removed it from the toilet of James Hooper’s home in Virginia Beach, Va. (James Hooper via AP)
Animal Control Supervisor Rebecca Franklin says the pastel pied ball python’s owners spotted photos on social media and claimed her Friday. She says the snake disappeared two weeks ago a couple of miles away from Hooper’s home.
Franklin believes she climbed into the toilet, instead of travelling though the sewer. She says she was lucky to end up with people who treated her well.

http://torontosun.com/news/weird/sn...toilet-miles-away-from-where-she-went-missing

 

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Snake slithers out of toilet, bites Florida man on arm
Associated Press
Published:
May 28, 2019
Updated:
May 28, 2019 3:58 PM EDT
Ball python. (Postmedia file photo)
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Authorities say a ball python slithered out of a toilet and bit a South Florida man on the arm.
Coral Springs police spokesman Chris Swinson said the man was treated at the scene after the 4-foot (1.2-meter) snake bit him when he lifted the toilet seat on Sunday morning. The snake is nonvenomous.
Swinson told news outlets the snake didn’t belong to the man and it was unclear how it got into the apartment.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports the Coral Springs Humane Society took the snake to a veterinarian’s office. It was being treated for a scale infection.
Over the years other creatures have found their way into toilets in South Florida, including an iguana freed by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue in March.
http://sun-sentinel.com/local/browa...0190528-togijbdkvvgspd2nfjptngzsh4-story.html
http://torontosun.com/news/weird/snake-slithers-out-of-toilet-bites-florida-man-on-arm

 

[Danbones]

PAIN ON THE SNAKE!!! PAIN ON THE SNAKE!!!

Damn I hate it when there is a Pain on the Snake.

 

[B00Mer]

Meh, I had to have run over about 4 or 5 on this trip to Texas.

Dam things love the heat of the pavement...

 

[Blackleaf]

My cat killed a mouse this morning in the bathroom. I was in the bathroom shaving and my cat was in there with me when I just looked from the bathroom at the TV in the living room. Time Team was on - the episode where they uncover Bronze Age burials on Barra - when all of a sudden I hear, behind me, my cat pouncing and then a loud squeaking. The squeaking continued for a few seconds behind me as I continued staring at the TV, amazed at the murder taking place behind me. When the squeaking stopped I glanced round and there was my cat with a dead mouse in her mouth. She carried it out into the hallway and plonked it into the floor.

 

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Man charged with selling rattlesnakes hospitalized for bites
Associated Press
Published:
May 29, 2019
Updated:
May 29, 2019 2:15 PM EDT
A rattlesnake warms up in the sun on a road near Buffalo, Alta., on May 23, 2017.Mike Drew / Postmedia Network / Files
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man charged with illegally catching and trying to sell venomous eastern timber rattlesnakes has been hospitalized after being bitten by snakes.
Cody Short was bitten by eastern timber rattlesnakes Friday night, said Mike Parker, a state Fish and Boat Commission spokesman. The bites happened hours after the delay of his scheduled guilty plea to charges related to the illegal capture and sale of rattlesnakes and the killing of 12 prized deer in another case, according to Pennlive.com.
He was in critical condition Wednesday at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, according to hospital spokesman Joseph Stender.
Short was arrested last summer after he agreed to sell 11 snakes to an undercover agent for $900. He had 22 rattlesnakes at his property near Williamsport.
In February, Short told Pennlive he was sorry.
“I’m very ashamed for all that I did. Everything about this was wrong. I’m guilty of what I did,” he said.
He told the news site he caught the snakes to eat them at his 40th birthday party last June.
Hunters can get a permit to take one eastern timber rattlesnake a year, but aren’t permitted to sell them.
Due to the charges against Short, he wouldn’t have been issued a permit, Parker said.
Short also is accused of killing 12 deer worth $138,000 at Whitetail Mountain Lodge, an enclosed preserve where deer are bred, raised and released for hunting.
Prosecutors allege that Short shot the bucks in the fall and winter of 2017, cut off their heads for the antlers and left the carcasses.
http://pennlive.com/crime/2019/05/m...rom-multiple-snake-bites-game-commission.html
http://torontosun.com/news/world/man-charged-with-selling-rattlesnakes-hospitalized-for-bites

 

[Blackleaf]

I saw a snake in Manchester Museum the other day.

It's being pickled in a jar. Looks like it's been in there for about 80 years. It's definitely dead.