Gothamist: Snake in a Park

skins

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:46:43 -0500

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

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:28:45 -0500

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

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:10:41 -0500

there's snakes out there this big?

Jerky

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:31:47 -0500

Why is every Burmese python owner an attention whore??

aster

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:17:48 -0500

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

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:44:01 -0500

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

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:41:06 -0500

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

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:26:37 -0500

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

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:10:29 -0500

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