The scary stories of confrontations with dead snakes

The scary stories of confrontations with dead snakes

This is called Ophidiophobia, and as its best-known cousin arachnophobia, it is actually served a useful purpose in the evolution of human beings. The fear of snakes kept our ancestors alive. In a world without doors, windows, or shovels, learning to spot and avoid a deadly snake was a pretty important survival skill. That's why our fear of snakes is sometimes so irrational. If you are going to save yourself from a venomous attacker, it's a great idea to run from each snake, rather than waste precious time trying to decide which ones you really need to be scared of.

Today, we know more than before. Most people can tell the difference between a deadly rattlesnake and a harmless Kingsnake, yet we're still almost as terrified of the Kingsnake as we are from the snake that actually has the deadly venom. But some Run-ins are terrifying anyway. Here are some really weird stories of snake encounters, mostly the potentially deadly variety.

1 And you thought that headless chickens were scary

What should you do if you encounter a rattlesnake in your backyard? Well, you can keep your distance and hope that he continues to live a life of peace and harmony and he never bites your children. Or you can behead it with a shovel.

According to CNN, that's what Milo Sutcliffe did, but then the head of the decapitated snake took a cold revenge and bit him on the hand when he tried to pick it up.

Now, being bitten by a headless snake is not the same as being bitten by a whole snake. A decapitated snake does not have all its faculties intact. So while a head that is still attached to his body may be able to regulate his delivery of venom, a decapitated snake leaves loose with all he has because hey, why not. It's not like it'll ever have another chance.

Sutcliffe needed 26 doses of anti-venom and spent five days in a medically induced coma. Just to put this in perspective, a more typical number of rattlesnake antivenom doses is two to nine. So the lesson here is not, "do not behead the rattlesnakes" (although many people will tell you to just leave them alone). The lesson is "do not pick up the head of a beheaded rattlesnake" because he is still able to bite for hours literally after he has been separated from his body.

2 A beautiful evening, a walk in the moonlight, and three Black Mambas

National Geographic says Black Mamba is "widely regarded as the deadliest snake in the world." Mambas can grow up to 14 feet in length, they can slither to 12.5 mph, and their venom can kill you in 20 minutes. So, really, this means that if you live in Black Mamba territory, you should sleep in a cement room without doors and windows and you should never leave unless you can wrap your entire body in several layers of carbon fiber . It's not really practical, though, so most people sort of live with the daily threat and I hope they will not walk on one while coming home from a party.

One night in Kenya, Cheposait Adomo was walking home from a party when a 6.5-foot Black Mamba wrapped around her ankles and bit her three times. So it was terrible, but then two other Black Mambas were all, "Hey, we can not let this other black mamba have all the fun!" And quickly slipped towards her, but were taken by a guy with a machete before being able to join the biting part of the ankle.

Adomo has been given anti-venom and has survived, but thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa are not that lucky. It is estimated that 30,000 people die from snake bites every year, in part because they are too far from a hospital, and partly because anti-venom costs more than a full year's salary.

3 Burmese ten-foot pythons do not make great late-night companions

So you work the night shift in a zoo, and you walk by a 10-foot Burmese python in his pen. You look at him, and he looks at you. You say to yourself, "This snake seems to want to eat me." he thinks to himself, "I want to eat this guy." you get a thrill in the spine and then you will admire the frogs of the trees. You do not have to proceed to open the python cage.

But according to the BBC, that's what 29-year-old biology student Erick Arrieta does, although no one knows why. When the employees arrived the next morning, they found the snake wrapped around Arrieta's body, apparently in the process of trying to swallow his head. They beat the snake until it released him, but it was too late.

Now, you can blame anyone for this horrific incident. Arrieta should not have entered the python cage, and he should not have entered the python cage late at night when he was the only employee on the scene. On the other hand, you can also blame the 10-foot snake for doing exactly what you expect it to do. Still, the fact that Arrieta even got into the cage is weird-maybe the jungle book was about something when he demonstrated that pythons have weird mind control powers.

4 Yes, snakes can actually come toilets

So Disclaimer: it's not technically an encounter with a "deadly" snake, but that does not make the story less horrible. Compared to a black mamba, the bite of a python is not terrible. Pythons do not have venom, so a Python bite hurts, and it scares the devil, but it's not going to kill you. Now, knowing that if you had the chance to be bitten by a rattlesnake on your leg or by a python on your man's parts, which one would you choose?

In this horrific story, a man in Thailand was using his restroom when a python literally came out of it and bit him on his Baby-Making unit. According to CNN, he lost so much blood that he had to be transferred to a local hospital.

And if that's not horrible enough, one of the rescuers who responded to the scene said rather shockingly casually that snakes are coming out of the toilet all the time in Thailand, but you know, it's not usually not a big deal because they "most [bite] at the s leg or butts." Oh, well it's okay then!

Anyway, CNN said both the man and the snake survived, although the toilets had to be dismantled to get the snake, and the man probably never pissed in pots and cups of Starbucks from that moment onwards.

5 Most of the restaurants that serve Crotale Make sure he died first

If you happen to live in a place where there are venomous snakes, you know that you should look out for them while you are gardening, or when you are walking to the parties house, or (obviously) when you use the toilet. Never in a million years did you imagine that you have to check your window stand before you sit down for a meal in a restaurant, but after reading what it's probably going to do every time, just after you check the toilets for the pythons.

According to CBS, Rachel Myrick was having a meal at a Steakhouse at the LongHorn in St. Virginia when she felt a tingling sensation in her foot. She thought it was a bee because no one thought "Oh my god snake venomous" while they were sitting in a steakhouse, but as it turned out to be an 8 inch viper and he bit three time.

Myrick was taken to a nearby hospital where she received anti-venom. You have to assume that it's hard for her to return to a LongHorn Steakhouse without wearing heavy leather combat boots. It seems like the logical plan of action. It's just too bad that you can not also wear heavy leather combat boots on your man's parts.

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6 What's next to my juice box?

Rattlesnakes are scary, but compared to some of the other snakes in the world, they are a bit like Rottweiler Pomeranians. Poisonous loulous that will go for your chinstrap even after beheaded, but still.



Australia is much worse than the rattlesnake of the country. Australia has Taipans (the most venomous terrestrial snakes in the world), yellow-bellied sea snakes, continent tiger snakes, beaked sea snakes, and Sydney funnel web spiders. OK, this one is not a snake, but it's very terrifying. There are also brown snakes from the east, which are the world's second most poisonous land snakes, so that Australia gets to be home to the two most venomous terrestrial snakes in the world, which is so not great for people living in Australia.



Snakes in Australia are so common that people can not get away with just checking under the restaurant tables and making sure everything is clear before using the restroom. According to Newsweek, an Australian mother was packing her child's lunch in 2018 when she found a convent of eastern brown snake curled up inside. aw, but it's just a baby, right? Yes, it's a baby, but brown snakes are just as dangerous as adults, except the little ones, which means they can easily fit into your lunch box, your shoe, or the pair of pants that you have left lying on the floor of the bathroom.



Fortunately, no one was bitten by the lunch snake.

7 If you are going to harvest palm oil in the jungle, bring a friend with a big machete

So just in case you thought a python eating a human was an awesome but futile attempt, here is a story of a python that handled the sickening feat. Hang on to your lunch.

According to CBS, a 25-year-old Indonesian man identified as Akbar disappeared while harvesting palm oil in March 2017. After searching for some time, the villagers discovered a 23-foot reticulated python that was swollen and clumsily moving "near where they also found Akbar's tools and one of his boots. They cut the snake and found the missing man inside.

Obviously, this was the first case of a person killed and eaten by a snake in the area, but it's not really comforting. On the other hand, a 23-foot snake would probably not enter your restroom, but if at least it's one less thing to worry about if you live in the area.

8 Even your child's toys are not safe

We like to think that our kids are safe in our own backyards, and that their lunch only has apples and sandwich in them, but it would be kind of naive. The truth is that snakes plan to kill us all, we have not yet found their staging area underground.

According to Austin360, an Abilene, Texas, toddler was playing in his backyard when he started crying. His mother saw blood on his hand and identified the marks as a snake bite. Then she saw the snake: it was a juvenile rattlesnake that was hiding near the toys and the boy's slide. Now, you may have heard that baby snakes are more deadly than adults, but that's kind of a myth. While it is true that baby snakes are inexperienced and tend to drop just about all their venom when they hit, their venom has been shown to be less potent and they do not have as much of it as adults do, therefore adult bites usually cause more damage. However, the boy was only 1 year old, which means that his weight-to-venom ratio was not very high. The bite required surgery and more than two dozen vials of anti-venom.

9 Do you really need to be told not to take selfies with rattlesnakes?

Most bite stories inspire empathy, but sometimes you hear a bite story and you think about yourself, "Eh ... this person had a little he was coming." Fortunately, this person has survived because we would not wish dead bite to anyone, but you do not have to be a herpetologist to know that taking an autoy with a rattlesnake is a really stupid idea.

According to the Huffington Post, in Lake Elsinore, California, in 2015 a 36-year-old man found a rattlesnake and then ... Wait for him ... he put it around his neck so he could take a photo. Then he tried to rearrange it in a cooler pose so he could take a second car, and he bit him on the go. Because rattlesnakes do not make duck lips or Instagram, and they are venomous and they bite when they feel threatened. In case you do not know it.

Crotal selfs are obviously a thing because in earlier this year, another man from California tried to take a trunk with a rattlesnake and ended up with a $ 153,000 hospital bill. Over $ 83,000 of this Bill was just for anti-venom because he needed just about all that. From two hospitals.

The man from Lake Elsinore might lose his thumb and perhaps never use his hand again. But he learned his lesson. "Do not mess with snakes," he said of the hospital. "Leave them alone". awesome!

10 If poisonous snakes haunt your dreams, do not read this

And finally, in case you think the only place left where you can really be safe from snakes is your own bed, in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2017, 24-year-old Christie Kelly was awoken by a sudden, horrible pain in his hand. According to the Washington Post, she jumped, turned on the light, and discovered that there was an adult viper rattlesnake in her bed.

So before we start to wonder if the snakes now have teleporting powers or anything, Kelly lived in the finished basement of a house that had recently undergone some construction work, which could have given the snake a way to enter. And because snakes are cold-blooded animals, they gravitate towards things that are warm, like humans sleeping.

Kelly received four vials of anti-venom and had to undergo three surgeries or risk losing her hand. She told a reporter that she was perfectly happy to be in the hospital, though. "At least there are no snakes here," she said. "Go home, I do not see myself returning to the same room or bed."

Sweet dreams, everyone.

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