Grocery Shopping in South Africa – Man Eating Python
March 31st 2010 23:59
One of the worlds largest snake species, they can attain a length of 6m (20ft). They live in cool underground burrows made by other animals, yet this man is sweating profusely, and I don’t blame him.
This specimen is defending its eggs, making it especially aggressive. Rock Pythons (Python sebae) lay up to a hundred eggs and incubate them for 2 or 3 months.
The hunter provokes the snake to strike him on the protected arm. It looks painful in spite of the goatskin. Pythons are not venomous but they do have sharp teeth.
At a signal, probably when his feet start thrashing around, his friend pulls him out of the burrow by the ankles, dragging the snake out with him.
The snake is killed by clubbing the head, then the rest of its length is dragged out. African Rock Pythons are not endangered but they are listed as vulnerable, and outsiders need a permit to capture them.
Even walking back to the village with over a hundred kilograms (220lbs) of reptile meat is hard work. It makes busy checkouts and crowded car parks seem trivial.
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Comment by Samantha Elley
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
that poor mother snake, not only was she killed violently, but all her brood too.
what a disgrace!
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Comment by Anonymous
Come to South Africa, and perhaps you will understand the true plight of our various snake species! Furthermore, supermarkets are not scarce! We are not a civilisation of fucking hunter gatherers!!!
Get your facts straight before you start posting shit like this!
Comment by Anonymous
They have a blood lust, that is not driven by hunger, but by some fucked up psychological disorder!
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Comment by Anonymous
This is a highly ILLEGAL practise, and I hope these fuckers burn in hell for all of eternity!
Comment by Anonymous
1. Supermarkets are plentiful in South Africa and we have a very sophisticated way of life.
2. African Rock Pythons are not known man eaters, at all. They will go out of their way to avoid man, and go into deep burrows away from man. They feed mainly on animals, as do lions, cheetah, leopards etc.
3. These men do not have the appearance of South Africans at all, but seem to be from further north.
4. Our rural South Africans also have access to supermarkets, and are not under threat from African Rock Pythons eating them.
5, Please educate yourself properly before you go around posting something like this, which gives thousands of people the wrong impression of South Africa.
I feel that the whole series of photographs and comments is an absolute disgrace, and gives pythons an undeserved bad name.