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Snake in a Park

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Brian at New York Daily Photo took this picture of an albino Burmese python in Central Park. Apparently its owner was showing him (?) off, perhaps trying to harness some of the snake fever that's gripping the nation...okay, the Internet. But a Burmese python? We saw one at the American Museum of Natural History's Lizards & Snakes: Alive! exhibit, and they are insanely deadly! They are supposedly very popular to be bred for captivity, but not to be total narc, but we think the Health Code prohibits Burmese pythons.

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By Jen Chung in on August 26, 2006 9:06 AM

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  • skins

    No joke here, I was actually bit by a burmesse python. It wasn't fun in the least, but these things aren't deadly. Its fangs did go clean through my hand though - guess you shouldn't stick your hands it a tank when one of these puppies hasn't eatten in a few day. Jackass you ask? Nah, just a wacky noodle. Live and learn, right cooz?

  • schatzi

    GOTHAMIST - your MISinformation station as usual. Burmese pythons are hardly "deadly" in the mako shark/alligator/king cobra sense that humans think of such dangerous creatures. OY

  • Ice Cube

    there's snakes out there this big?

  • Jerky

    Why is every Burmese python owner an attention whore??

  • aster

    Who told you that these were deadly? They hunt by super slowly squeezing their catch... it isn't something that they try on humans...

  • Mars

    I'm not sure if it's the same snake or owner but two years ago after school; there would be an old hispanic guy with a snake just like that on west 83rd and broadway. The snake was nowhere near deadly - even with a few kids poking at it.

  • Sherlock Bones

    what the fuck??? You put a snake on hard gravel? that's like torture. Those kinds of snakes only hang on vines. Free that snake.

  • paul

    this person has been at the park with the snake (and entourage of tourists/locals taking pictures with it) every time i've gone in the last 2 months. old news.

  • g

    they are not insanely deadly, unless you are a mouse.

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