| Huge Snake Caught In Electric Fence
A huge snake hs been electrocuted to death at the Exxon Mobile compound in Luanda - Angola, Africa. The second photo shows the devastating teeth of the snake. 1 more pic after the jump.
Related Posts
|
Contact | Popular Posts | Amazon |
|
|
|
|
Home | Animation | Anime | Arts | AutoMobiles | Celebrities | Interesting | Fashion | Gadgets | Games | News |
|
|
August 16th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
THATS SO SAD! :o(
October 14th, 2006 at 2:32 am
that is so nasty!!
poor snake
November 10th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
omg…scary poor snake
December 14th, 2006 at 5:29 am
Who cares of that stupid snake,
If you were standing next to him, and he didnt got trapped by an electric fence, you would be eaten for dinner…
(Srry im that rude, but i just saw the movie : anaconda lol.)
In short lines : Its our mistake. (the humans) they shouldnt hold a snake captive.
December 25th, 2006 at 12:20 am
thats scary
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Why was it trying to eat the fence :S?
January 30th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
wooooooooooooooooooooot big mouth lmao
February 7th, 2007 at 3:24 am
omg that snake it very!!!! big!!!! thats scary….i could fit in his mouth!!
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Tristan knows nothing! That snake would just slither away not eat you! Snakes make great pets. People who do not know what they are taling about should not leave comments.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I concor with Tanya. anaconda was so fake it was unreal. snakes are actually more afraid of people then we are of them. They do not want to bother us. Most snakes live on a diet on rodants and other small mammels. Or whatever comes their way. Plus as you can see by the bulge in the snake it had just recently eaten. Also snakes will actually give a warning hiss before they strike. That will probably give you time to get out of its way. Then once the threat is gone the snake will stop attacking you, if it does in the first place. And as for snakes being pets. I would start off with a smaller one and work your way up. If you get a boa constrictor make sure that you are not the only one who is taking care of it. Just in case. But that’s just my advice.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I HAVE A SNAKE LIKE THAT IN MY ROOM.
POOR SNAKE.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 am
OMFG……..shit that was scarey. u losers need a lyfe. REALLY GOD!!!!
ne ways, get a life, and find some cuter animals to electricute!!!
ok bye
March 28th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I think that was two things.It was scary but cool u should make a myspace.
your friend,
Bailey
PS,you should title your myspace: Sheep Lover,and I love u!!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
tristan you seem like a really arroggant little s**t what because youve seen anaconda the film you know everything there is to know about snakes and you dont care if a big snake like this comes to a horrible death i love snakes and i own snakes and i can tell you that there one of the greatest things in my life.
you need to open your eyes and reilise that anaconda is a film and most so called ‘incidents’ between snakes and humans is due to the humans. we are a threat to them believe it or not and they will only defend themselves not go out there way to attack and eat us.
tool
April 6th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Tanya,
You’re right… people who do not know what they are talking about should not leave comments, and that includes YOU. Your pet boa or python might not eat you, but a wild and fully grown python would definitely consider you a tasty bit of sushi. There are quite a few accounts of snakes attacking and consuming humans. Sorry to burst your bubble.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:19 am
OMG Griswold, speed, cocaine, and coffee don’t mix. You might consider it. Just a thought.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Lauren,
It’s fairly obvious that you lack experience with wild snakes, and only interact with snakes in containers. Please don’t mistake my tone.. I’m not trying to be rude.
I once had an encounter with a Mojave Green Rattlesnake which is a great example of exactly the opposite of what you stated. Snake lovers might want to shut your eyes and not read further, because it doesn’t turn out good for the snake in my story.
I was walking a remote trail in the Mojave desert of California with my friend about 20 feet behind me. The trail had small bushes and short dry grass on either side of it all along. At one long straight stretch of the trail I stopped for a drink of water and turned to offer some to my friend and between us I saw a 6′ or so stretch of emerald green, which stood out against the tan-colored grass, just off the trail and running alongside it. I had just walked past this point without noticing it. I took a step toward it to see what it was and it flew into a rage of hissing and rattling. I had never seen a green rattlesnake before but considering its size I was more than ready to leave it alone and after telling my friend to circle wide we were starting to move away.
No can do though… the snake decided that we’d pissed it off and instead of slinking off somewhere it came towards us. We speculated that it had probably never run into a human being before and had no fear of us, as I’d read about other animals. Nevertheless, the snake wouldn’t let up, which made it more dangerous. It was hissing, striking, rattling, basically really pissed off. At one point we even took off at a run to put some distance between us and the snake and when we’d run about 100 feet we looked back and saw the snake coming down the trail too.
At that point I made a decision that since we were about to set up camp for the night it would be dangerous to have this snake trying to “make friends” in the dark, so I pulled out the Glock 9mm I was carrying (trust me, we were in “The Hills Have Eyes” country) and simply walked up to the snake and shot it.
Before everyone starts emailing me hate mail about killing the snake, consider the fact that since it had no fear of us, it would have no fear of anyone else travelling down that trail, including mom, dad, and the three kids plus Fido that we ended up seeing on the same trail the next day. I’d rather kill the snake than have little Wendy die from an aggressive rattlesnake’s bite.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:59 am
wow she looks like she just ate something.or someone =/ it’s really fat
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Oh how I hate snakes. My friend told me to look at snake pictures to cure my phobia.. without actually going near one.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I THINK IT TRIED TO GET OUT AND WHEN IT GOT THROUGH, IT TRIED TO BITE THE FENCE LIKE IT WAS A ANIMAL SO IT WOULD STOP AND GOT STUCK LIKE THAT..lol
what a dumb snake
July 6th, 2007 at 2:11 am
now i dont like snakes but the people that r saying poor snake r right that an electric fence and from the looks of the picture wat happened was this the snake tride t go under the fence and its back probaly hit the fence wire and got a mild shock the snake not noing that the fence isnt alive attacked it in self defense by biteing the wire and the resulting shock killed it
and to thoughs of u how think snakes will not attack people unless they are provoked or u other hwo say i have a snake like that in my room and it never hurt me consider this snake that have never had any contact with humans before see us as pray and do not fear us and also theresa big difference between a wild snake and 1 in a cage in your room wild snakes have little or no experience with human and will attack you if provoked the 1s we keep in cage that are sold at pet shop grow up around alot of people and are train not to attack us
everyone consider wat i just wrote
July 14th, 2007 at 11:13 am
poor snake?? are you kiddin me.. that thing could eat a voltzwaggon. im terrified of snakes and they make STUPID pets. i dont know why you would have a pet snake, all they would do is crawl around and bite you when you try to touch it. i personally have never even touched a snake( knock on wood and thank jesus) but a dog or monkey would much more suit me!!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:11 am
awww she musta been scared poor thing…..
July 19th, 2007 at 9:46 am
ppl that cant spell shouldnt leave comments some of you ppl’s shit is rediculous. did any of you take an english class????
July 27th, 2007 at 4:07 am
I’m glad it was killed; these things should be slowly put to death
ugly fuckers
August 11th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
this is called life……….everyone have to face a new thing in life every moment……its very tough to see that snake in this condition but it was his destiny…cant help it out..
mey god rest her soul in peace.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Yeah Jim, dumb snake. It’s mommy forgot to teach it that reacting on instinct - biting as a means of defense - won’t work on electric fences.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:21 am
this so-called electic fence is grounded by the steel rods that its hooked on it would not work
September 6th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Firstly, dee, don’t attack other people’s spelling and then proceed to misspell “ridiculous”. Also, “ppl” is not a word.
Now on to the topic:
It’s too bad that the snake had to go like that. Electrocution is very unpleasant. Unfortunately, that’s what happens when we fuck with nature. We built a compound in this snake’s natural habitat because we’re obsessed with raping the planet, and we put up protection so we would be safe in foreign territory. The snake, likely having no exposure to humans or their destructive creations, probably came along looking for water, shelter, or some such, and thought it was attacked. Its natural reaction was to bite its attacker, which just so happened to be an electric fence. Life goes on, creatures die.
I will say that is a big motherfucking snake though! In africa, they have huge, dangerous wild animals. Where I come from, they’re called Americans.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I’m having a little trouble with this photograph. The fence upon which the snake is resting its head and teeth is NOT electric. This is evidenced by the fact that horizontal (fence) wire is directly attached to the metal posts that are inserted into the ground. If THIS portion of the fence were in fact electric, then the fence wire would have to be mounted on a non-conductive bracket, such as porcelain, and cannot touch the grounded posts.
My guess would be that the electric wire is the one that is approximately three-feet away, but I cannot tell with this photograph. If the outer wire is ALSO mounted in the same fashion as the inner fence, then this photograph is possibly a phony.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:05 am
Um, Zach… I for one am afraid to consider what you “wrote”, if that’s even called writing. I’m afraid my head might explode. I read your comment and was unable to actually take a breath considering you didn’t use a comma or period anywhere in your several-paragraphed comment. For God’s sake, I could have died. Please tell me where you went to school so that I never send my children there.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:06 am
Dee, before you critique other people’s spelling, consider what a bad speller you are too. Please re-read your comment and you’ll hopefully see what I mean.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Some of the comments in this thread is proof that the world is full of careless idiots.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
deep throat aha
October 27th, 2007 at 7:47 am
It wasn’t tying to eat the fensce, it was trying to scare or void off what was hurting it.
Silly
November 29th, 2007 at 1:50 am
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fencesnake.asp#photo2
The snake came into a game ranch, ate an impala ewe, and when exiting the ranch was trapped by and killed by the shown electric fence. It sucks that it died this way, should have “kept it’s hands out of the cookie jar”.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:47 am
omg if i saw a snka that big i would probably scream fant and if i could run
February 1st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
What if you had a kid running through the grass and ran into him, would he just slither away then? i doubt it, it is best he is gone, awsome transaction.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Isn’t that snake…yeah…That’s my uncles, he said it had died… shame….
February 28th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
The picture of the snake was taken at a game ranch in south Africa.
It is a african rock python which had just eaten an impala.thats why it looks so fat, and the result is it did’nt slide back under the fence with room to spare…
March 27th, 2008 at 8:09 am
OMG!!!!!! Thats scary but i feel sorry for that snake!
April 14th, 2008 at 2:02 am
If you think the snake should of been killed you should be also azz……..
July 5th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I’ve heard another story about the picture, a story quite a few here have seemed to have guessed already:
The snake (a constrictor by the way, probably some kind of python and thus not poisonous) crawled under the fence, fount itself a large tasty meal (an antelope I think it was, not sure…), and then failed to be slim enough to get back under the fence. Dunno if they killed it or released it (probably killed it) - but anyway it was not electrecuted i’m pretty sure (and either way an electric fence would not have had a high enough voltage to kill anything - unless they were trying to kill the animals they were fencing up… doh…).
And about snakes eating humans: The green anaconda (also a constrictor) is not unknown to reach such sizes it could easily eat a human child or small adult. So if you were, say, sleeping alone some way from a settlement and a hungry anaconda just happened to crawl by… Have happened…
Snakes are extremely cool though
July 13th, 2008 at 9:12 am
thats bad for the snake but good in the thought of protection…
So for me its oki doki….
August 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Wow, some people absolutely amaze me. Poor Snake? Would you enjoy happening upon that snake with your kids in tow, or worse yet, your kids happening upon that snake without you around. A small child could certainly look like a meal to that snake.
Before you start going off about how bad we humans are for killing that poor snake, go look in your closets, in your fridges and freezers, more than likely, you’ve got some part of a ‘poor animal’ there.
The circle of life has and always will be in force, since the dawn of man, animals have been just below man on the food chain and that will remain true for the foreseeable future. If you are offended or displeased by harm to animals, try to recall the fact that your stupid ass wouldn’t be here if early man had not been the skilled hunter he was. Animals eat animals and like it or not, humans are animals.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:53 am
Snakes can make very good pets. I own 4 ball pythons and a corn snake. My childern love them as they are beloved family memebers. Obviously my pythons are much smaller (6 feet is my longest) than the one killed on this fence but my son has been handling my snakes since he was 5 and not once has he been bitten or even felt threatened by them. Yes he knows not to mess with snakes in the wild because when threatened they can bite, although they normally turn and go hide when we humans run accross them.
I don’t understand how people can be so afraid of an aminal that you are generaly 50 to 100 times larger than them. If you figure most snakes in the us are only 4-6 feet long on average and weight from 2-8 pounds , yes there are some exceptions, it just doesn’t make sense to me.
Here’s a thought for ya, rats cause huge problems in most city’s and they’re everywhere. concider this the rats natural predetors are hawks owls and snakes, or course your dog and cat might get a few. Most city’s that i’ve been in have hawks, owls, cats and dogs. Most lack snakes simply because there is no where for the snakes to hide! They try to avoid people and would be much happier laying on a rock or curled up under one eating a rat!
In all my research about snakes, and i’ve done my fair share because i wanted to know what i was bringing around my children, i have only found one case where a snake tried to eat a human. The snake, that was killed before it could swallow its meal, was a 28 ft reticulated python (native to asia, india and africa) and its still unknown if the snake killed the person or the person died and the snake happened apon him.
Closer to home people do die because of snake bites. Some snakes venom is very deadly but here are some more facts for you. Just because a venomous snake bites you it does not mean that it enjected any venom into you and most defensive strikes from venomous snakes do not include any venom. producing vemon takes alot of energy for the reptiles and they pefer not to use it if they’re not eating.
One last though, my son has required stiches from a dog bite, many people in the us are attacked by dogs each year and some are killed by dogs. when’s the last time you heard about anyone dying from a pet snake attack? Even better check and see confirm your fears because reality overcomes fear.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
damn…. that snake is bad men i think that snake can eat two people at a time…
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 am
That snake would eat me if it was hungry, but I think this snake just ate someone cuz there’s a bulge in his snake tummy. Also, it doesn’t look very dead - the fence is obviously defective.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
That is the best kind of snake. A dead one!
January 27th, 2009 at 8:49 am
enjoy this one!!!!!!!
March 7th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Do yall even know the story?? A farmer realized that one by one his sheep were gone.. He was astonished because there were no remains not a body or bones NUTHIN! So he put up an electric fence for the protection of his sheep.. When he came out the next morning this is what he found.. The python had been eating his sheep!
March 8th, 2009 at 7:20 am
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html
phython vs. alligator in the Everglades
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/02/04/a1b_pythons_0205.html
And here’s Pete: the beagle who sniffs out these monster released pets! http://www.videojug.com/film/python-pete
I have respect for nature. My family and I frequently visit Florida’s beautiful state parks. In fact, we typically pick a section of Florida each year to explore for vacation. My concerns are: people get these guys as pets, then release them into the wild when they are too big and costly to continue feeding/harboring inside the home. As a Floridian, I do not like this threat. It is messing with the ecosystem of the Everglades. For those who don’t believe these guys are dangerous, this “pet” SWALLOWED an alligator! A SIX FOOT ALLIGATOR!!!! Now how tall are human adults? How tall is a child? Look whose coming to dinner!
And the real stupidity is the fact we “high intellect, top of the food chain” humans always believe we can control everything, whether it’s a 12 foot long snake (or alligator, they get pretty big too), a lion, tiger, or bear…Oh My! Predatory brains are wired for two things. Eat and reproduce! It’s all for survival. Even more idiocy, we place human thoughts and human feelings on our pets; but they ARE NOT human.
People get a grip!
May 9th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Alas, the internet can be both absurd and informative. I lived in rural West Africa for several years, which is distant from this picture’s exact location but probably shares some of the same human-wildlife dynamics. Many African snakes are poisonous, and there are many snakes in Africa. Outside of a few urban areas, health facilities with reliable anti-venom stocks are very, very rare. So many people die from snake bites in Africa. The various groups I lived with shared a high level of concern about snakes, people with vast experience with what we call “nature”. Upon sighting a snake, an entire village will mobilize. Everyone hunts until it is found and killed. Perhaps some can understand this by considering that snakes often end up biting children, and children are easiest to kill. So a snake represents a child killer, and consider how “modern” society fears and treats child murderers. Protesting that this snake died because humans are “raping the planet:” is like saying a child molester is the victim of provocative children. At a deeper level, if one responds to this picture with anti-human sentiment, it could mean one is living a cloistered suburban life.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
aww pore snake! i feel so bad for it but it is still a really grose snake but i feel bad for it and i wonder if it died? i dont think it did and the teath are so big and grose and the mouth is just so big and red it is just grose but sad if i saw that snake in real life slithering around i would skream and get the heck out of their and i would try to get as far back as posible!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Starting from the beginning. Why are so many of the comments all about how we as Humans are destroying “raping” the planet, and that’s why the snake died. It sounds to me like a large majority of the Tree Huggers out there think that Humans should all go extinct and the animals should take over, because it’s obvious that we have no right to live just like every other organism out there that doesn’t have enough intelligence to do what we can. How about we all go back to the way of living where we all ran around naked and lived off the land. Oh wait, that’s right, we can’t even do that because we would be killing live shrubs and animals to survive. Now that my rant is over, the snake was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Oops, oh well, get over it. Next on the list, every snake I have ever met, has hurt me, or tried to. Accidentally coming onto a Rattle Snake cluster ended with my brother in the Hospital. Or how about the Blow Snake that bit my ankle when I walked by it’s hole, making me have trouble walking for a few days from the strength of the bite. Or how about my neighbor’s pet snake that got out and started eating the local cat life. Come on, it’s an animal, we’re animals, we all belong on this planet, we all kill other life forms. Get over yourself and that fact that stuff happens and things die.
August 9th, 2009 at 1:27 am
This constrictor looks like it was electrocuted, there appears to be two conductors required for this electrocution , The first (single strand) close to the ground, the second conductor being the
multi stranded perimiter fence. Single conductor circuits probably do not work well in arrid ,dry conditions, one conductor would need to be insulated from the other for a lethal voltage to exist.
I suspect the single wire being HOT as it would be cheaper to insulate. even so the posts carrying the multi stranded fence might be powder coated ,which would provide the insulation necessary to make the multi stranded fence hot,
If it killed the snake it could probably kill people. but in dry conditions both conductors would be required to be touched by the victim.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
holy crap thats a huge snake feel sory for it
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:43 am
HAHAHA Wat a dumb snake for ya rite there
October 16th, 2009 at 1:12 am
I do not feel a bit sorry for it. I have helped kill approximately 6 snakes Boa constrictors, Black mambas, Puff adders,Green Mambas, etc
October 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am
“Tristan knows nothing! That snake would just slither away not eat you! Snakes make great pets. People who do not know what they are taling about should not leave comments.”
You are an idiot Tanya. Lots of people have been eaten or killed by pet snakes. Snakes don’t love you - they just haven’t gotten hungry or angry enough to fuck you up yet. Don’t downplay the power of ancient animal instinct.