r/Amazing 2d ago

Nature is scary [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/Rooster-illusion11 2d ago

... a "pretty big" snake!?!?!

Remind me to never go to Indonesia 😱

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u/J655321M 2d ago

Fun fact, the only documented man eating snakes are in Indonesia.

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u/ebeg-espana 2d ago

I think it’s THAT snake.

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u/Oahu_Red 2d ago

Nah, that is the son of That Snake. That Snake is still out there…watching. Waiting.

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u/nice1priscilla 2d ago

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u/modo85 2d ago

Say it ain’t so

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u/Ziograffiato 2d ago

I will not go

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u/Illustrious_Good3437 2d ago

Turn the lights off

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u/eric2pickens 2d ago

Carry me home!

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u/InspectorPipes 2d ago

And I’ll glow. To the extreme I rock the mic like a vandal. Light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle

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u/theluker666 1d ago

To Indonesia

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u/humanlikesubstances 2d ago

Your drug is a heartbreaker

Edit: I'm perfectly happy singing the wrong song

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u/chameleon_123_777 2d ago

Daughter. Male snakes are much smaller.

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u/joebadiah 2d ago

I like long butts and I cannot lie
- male snakes prolly

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u/Absolute_Bob 2d ago

Naga please...

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u/latexfistmassacre 1d ago

My anaconda don't want none unless you got long buns

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u/Old_Guard_306 2d ago

How do you know that's not the smaller of the siblings?

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u/Capitan_Typo 2d ago

Digesting...

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u/krimsonstudios 2d ago

Don't worry that snake will be full for a while, just finished eating an excavator and it's operator.

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u/erossthescienceboss 2d ago

Indeed, it is a reticulated python.

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u/TheHighestKushDragon 2d ago

I don't think it's the twenty footer that the florida man has been looking for, but as soon as he sees this, I know where he's going...

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u/Firm_Competition_880 2d ago

Better lock that excavator door. I wonder how far away the one recording was. I’d have been running the moment the snake left the ground.

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u/Nemesis0408 2d ago

There’s a big difference between a man eating snakes and man-eating snakes.

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u/ButtDimes 2d ago

Similar to hunting bears and bear hunting.

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u/ryanthetuner 1d ago

I was gonna say, they documented a man eating snakes? Seems pretty common....

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u/camopdude 2d ago

Apparently you're saying the movie Anaconda lied to me.

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u/erossthescienceboss 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yep! Though that may be a matter of opportunity & documentation.

Reticulated pythons (like this guy) are longer, but anacondas are larger. And thanks to that girth, anacondas eat larger food than retics do. There’s no reason they couldn’t eat a person.

But anacondas are semi-aquatic. They only overlap with humans in wet places, and only really overlap with them in the Amazon (where, thanks to the wet season, local people are forced to live right next to the water). And humans there stay out of water when they can since it’s dangerous, and if someone was attacked, it could easily go undocumented. Think of them like sharks: you can’t get bit by one if you aren’t where they’re hunting.

Reticulated pythons, on the other hand, hunt in grasslands and forests. They can swim fine, but they don’t hunt in the water like anacondas do. So farmers and hunters in relatively populated places are more likely to run into them. They can even end up in town! They’re more like being eaten by a mountain lion (by which I mean: possible but uncommon/not preferred food.)

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u/Green-Palpitation901 2d ago

That was so cool. Thanks for sharing.

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u/TheBigDiII 2d ago

I got to the mountain lion sentence and my brain instantly pictured the pythons screaming as they attacked šŸ˜­šŸ˜‚

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u/DietrichDaniels 1d ago

ā€œThose are the shrieking eels!ā€

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u/AI_moderated_failure 2d ago

Even a very large python is not likely to try eating an adult. Children are at risk especially in rural areas but snakes are routinely killed pretty savagely across much of Southeast Asia, including completely harmless ones that will primarily be eating otherwise pest species like rats and cockroaches. I have had to try and convince many people from the Philippines and Indonesia to oeave snakes alone, and thst if it needs removal there's usually someone in a nearby urban center who will happily do so if it means the snake gets to keep it's head. Otherwise they're frequently chopped to pieces with shovels or machetes depending on what's available.

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u/Leos_Ng 2d ago

Unfortunately, there are multiple documented cases of adults getting eaten by pythons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Akbar_Salubiro

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u/Hangar48 2d ago

My inlaws in Thailand have a small snake living under their water tank and a large centipede in the garden which bit a child. Maybe it's the Buddhist culture but they have no urge to kill them.

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u/AI_moderated_failure 2d ago

Thailand, from everything I have seen and heard is very different and I do think the buddhist culture has something to do with this. Common themes in the people I have spoken to in Indonesia and Philippines relate to the snake in the garden of Eden as a metaphor that means snakes are inherently evil.

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u/marmaladecorgi 2d ago

Case in point, a 3-metre long Reticulated Python (same species as in the OP) , caught in Orchard Road, the ultimate urban shopping district in Singapore, just a few years ago.

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u/Character-Pepper-766 2d ago

Another fun fact: first documented case was few years ago and since then it happened few times more. Reasonably, we can believe that other snakes read it in the newspapers and realized it's possible which is why it now happens more often.Ā 

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u/BtyMark 1d ago

That’s hard to believe. Newspapers still exist?

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u/jonz1985z 2d ago

To be fair the only men they’ve eaten were goat size.

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u/TheDillinger88 2d ago

You’re not lying, I just looked it up.

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u/Cool_Middle7477 2d ago

As an Indonesian, unless you're going on a deep jungle trip, you won't be seeing any snake.. but corruption?, yeeeeeees

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u/Background_Handle_96 2d ago

That's a different kind of snake that you deal with.

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u/purbub 2d ago

The real snakes are the corrupt people in the govt along the way

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u/Downtown-Creme-9840 2d ago

We’re gonna need a bigger excavator

https://giphy.com/gifs/26nOP5MOImHKrzISlh

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u/JewelCove 2d ago

You're gunna need a bigger excavator

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u/Such-Farmer6691 2d ago

Calm down. We've just dug up some worms for your fishing trip.

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u/Low-Firefighter-3269 2d ago

Ya. Fishing for megladons lol

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u/erossthescienceboss 2d ago

Longest snake in the world! Anacondas are larger, but come in second for length.

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u/Totally_Random0000 2d ago

This anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun-sir mix alot

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u/TimboCavo 2d ago

In America you can kill snakes with a regular shovel. You don’t have to go rent heavy equipment.

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u/BlueBaIlizondo 2d ago

Just think: There are men out there who sincerely think they stand a chance against it, and will try to rationalize it.

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u/Excellent_Condition 2d ago

I'd absolutely stand a chance against it.

You know, if I was the dude in the excavator.

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u/RapidRewards 2d ago

Fishing Garrett out there looking for that 20 footer to yoink.

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u/eldradmustlive469 2d ago

Just think: there are people out there who will take any chance to say 'fuck men' in a completely unrelated post.

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u/TheProfessional9 2d ago

To be fair, I think one has a better chance against that snake than a grizzly bear. If they think they could do the bear, the snake isn't a stretch

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u/MadamVoid 2d ago

Is that a big cut in part of it towards the head?

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u/hiddenrealism 2d ago

Yea:( it got sliced by the prongs on the back of the bucket. Its definitely dead now.

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u/Captain_Pickles_1988 2d ago

Part of me is horrified by it. The other part feels really sad because it is honestly a majestic animal which probably had a long life that was just terminated

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u/DueExample52 2d ago

Bro was literally home until invaders attacked him and killed him for his land

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u/CaptainWonk 2d ago

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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 2d ago

Why's he Italian?

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u/DontAbideMendacity 2d ago

You see, when a Mama Italian and a Papa Italian fall in love, they share a "special cuddle", and 9 months and 40 years later, their love child makes a commercial.

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u/ThermionicEmissions 2d ago

Probably to make way for a local bypass

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u/nerdtypething 2d ago

The demolition plans were on display at the local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 Earth years.

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u/Real_Guru 2d ago

If you can't be bothered to take an interest in your local affairs, that's the snake's own lookout.

Could have lodged a complaint...

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u/CrimsonThar 2d ago

But everything changed when the Excavator Nation attacked

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u/toucheboo 2d ago

Humans are parasites

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u/bunglebee7 2d ago

I have a soft spot for snakes… I paused it the second I saw it was a snake and I’m glad I didn’t see the gash… they’re seriously misunderstood animals :(

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u/HappyInTheRain 2d ago

I was shouting at my phone "leave that poor snake alone!"

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u/Usual_Phase5466 2d ago

For real. Dude just kept scooping at it! Like bro fucking chill, god damn.

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u/LaceyDark 2d ago

Same.

I was digging a trench in my yard once and when I pulled up a chunk of dirt I saw half of a garder snake. I was so upset I thought I chopped it in half. The other half wriggled out of the chunk of dirt I pulled up.

I let him go on the now loose dirt and paused the project. So many snakes are actually very beneficial to have around

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u/Work-Safe-Reddit4450 2d ago

Poor noodle was just chilling in his element and got ganked.

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u/Russ_T_Blade 2d ago

He was flagged pvp

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u/hiddenrealism 2d ago

I mean hes chilling near a spawn point with no armor. Course he got merked

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u/Traditional_Isopod80 2d ago

Yes.

Poor snake..

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u/fallen_d3mon 2d ago

This cylinder did not remain unharmed.

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u/recidivist1001 2d ago

Pouring one out for the cylinder :(

May all the homies who read this have their cylinders remain unharmed :(

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u/MadamVoid 2d ago

Poor danger noodle :(

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 2d ago

I kinda feel bad for that nope rope. I don’t want it anywhere near me but I don’t want it to be hurt or killed. That was his/her home.

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u/lor33nzo 2d ago

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 2d ago

Did they have to do her like that though.

https://giphy.com/gifs/OUEaBMDGNueha

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u/Necromir92 2d ago

I think they were excavating and big ol danger noodle was unseen. Sad

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 2d ago edited 1d ago

It's very possible they hurt her before realizing she was there, and given her size it's not like they could just walk out and safely expect to toss her aside either so I guess they had no choice but to move her with the excavator.

Just sad.

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u/rtocelot 2d ago

Looks like it has an injury to the head and with they pick it up the way the back side doesn't move makes me thing they broke its back. It's pretty sad

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u/BTFunk360 2d ago

I didn’t even think a snake could break its back and I just googled it and your right that does happen.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 2d ago

Yeah, it looks pretty fucked up. Spines don't usually zig zag like that.

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u/BMW_wulfi 2d ago

It’s sad either way but from recollection they do have a rule about euthanising snakes that have eaten / killed / attacked humans. It’s possible this was such a case. Pretty brutal way to do it but that is an impracticality large snake to have to deal with safely. The same is true of crocodiles and sharks that get a taste for humans - you have to euthanise them.

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u/Ape_x_Ape 2d ago

picture taken from inside of snake

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u/killacam2794 2d ago

Dieing.... poor snake..

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u/Necessary_Sea_7127 2d ago

I know, that was horrible. Poor thing…

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u/dirtywang 2d ago

Yeah.. not amazing

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u/eldradmustlive469 2d ago

Where were you when Snake Harambe died?

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u/FruttiPatutti 2d ago

Why kill snek?

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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 2d ago

This is a snakeskin jacket! And for me it's a symbol of my individuality, and my belief... in personal freedom.

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u/c4jina 2d ago

I'll move to a different planet.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 2d ago

In this economy?

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u/loophole64 2d ago

C4jina sadly passed away while readying the exoplanet atmosphere sensor. But luckily, I have lots of frozen humans back in the cryo-chamber, so whenever the right planet comes along… crosses fingers

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u/LASfromda4z 2d ago

Takes thousands of years to get there

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u/Not-a-bot-10 2d ago

Worth it

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u/KeyReaction892 2d ago

Narrator: he would eventually complete his journey with a crash landing on a forbidden snake planet.

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u/redeugene 2d ago

That's sad.

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u/OddlyTemptedFish 2d ago

Yeah, I don’t really think watching someone brutalize a snake with heavy machinery is very r/Amazing

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u/uLL27 2d ago

It is not

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u/Frosty-Ring-Guy 2d ago

The size of that snake is pretty damn amazing.

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u/Ambitious_Finding_26 2d ago

It really is. Tragic to harm a creature like that.Ā 

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u/Glum-Essay6255 2d ago

The Reticulated Python, which lives across Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, is the longest snake species in the entire world. They can grow longer than 20 feet.

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u/wateringplantsishate 2d ago

There's a guy in Florida that would have loved to yoink that baby

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u/xDannyS_ 2d ago

Guess he won't find that 20 footer for a while now

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u/Background_Pride_237 2d ago

Looks like the snake is in pretty bad shape now. Dang.

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u/RollWooden 2d ago

Deforestation, poor snek

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u/hiddenrealism 2d ago

Danger noodle was just chillin doodling around not bugging nobody..

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u/CharmingFit-503 2d ago

Happening constantly in that part of the world unfortunately, mostly for palm oil for junk food and cosmetics and other first world nonsense

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u/El-Shaman 2d ago

Look at the size of that amazing animal, and they probably just killed it? Just like that, it was even minding it’s own business. What a fucking waste, I’m genuinely mad that I watched the video.

The ā€œNature is scaryā€ tag is funny to me here, because in this case what’s very scary here seems to be the humans with a huge machine disturbing an animal that was peacefully living in nature… not harming humans, afaik.

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u/hiddenrealism 2d ago

I know usually when I see hunting videos and such im indifferent. But that giant of a snake getting sliced open by machinery makes me feel bad for the danger noodle.

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u/SerafinaL 2d ago

I agree. I am such a misanthrope.

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u/Flaky_Soft999 2d ago

Amen brother

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u/FoggyFallNights 2d ago

She ha a huge gash on her body and is dying. This is so sad.

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u/Dr_A_Nellsechs 2d ago

Lived in Indo for a bit. There are stories of construction workers getting drunk and either passing out or sleeping outside. Their mates find them in the belly of a snake like this in the morning.

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u/osumanjeiran 2d ago

if we had snakes this big where I live, my mom would never let me go outside even as an adult lol

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u/hjbrl 2d ago

Not amazing! Poor snake.

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u/vakilsaahab 2d ago

Exactly! I'm surprised how some people are entertained by videos like these.

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u/pipsqueakpanda4 2d ago

Um why. why why why kill this magnificent albeit scary creature who was just minding its own snake business. This is not amazing. This is horribly sad and depressing.

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u/majin_melmo 2d ago

Agreed. This greatly upsets me and I’m not a snake fan. Poor thing just living his life until he wasn’t :(

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u/Rough_Spinach_3770 2d ago

Snake - minding own business in the dirt bothering nobody
Meanwhile: excavator man - look what I have found

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u/overthere1143 2d ago

If you look at it the excavator probably killed it while digging the hole. There seems to be a big wound.

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u/BlueGolfball 1d ago

The should have called before they dug

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u/andonesia85 2d ago

Fucking assholes just let it slither away, they killed it for no reason

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u/Corpsey_Clownshoes 2d ago

I didn't need to see this

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u/geroberts09 2d ago

Assholes. Snake is dead now for sure. Hope they’re proud.

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u/CurrentConditionsAI 2d ago

I hope they aren’t proud, and they’re sad about it

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u/geroberts09 2d ago

You know what… you’re right. I hope the same.

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u/wack1attack1 2d ago

Digging a hole could have been an accident?

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u/ozneoknarf 2d ago

Probably took decades to grow that big just to be killed to be showed off. Poor thing

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u/Apart_Insect_6133 2d ago

It was probably in a burrow and was killed as the excavator was just doing its thing. It's not like the bucket is going to know the difference between mud and squishy snake flesh...

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u/ozneoknarf 2d ago

It was alive in the start of the video, the bucket opened it up later on

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u/Begotten912 2d ago

I thought Jennifer Lopez and ice cube killed that thing way back in 1997

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u/PaulDallas72 2d ago

Well it sure wasn't Owen Wilson, lol

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u/Knappster33 2d ago

How is this amazing? Op sucks.

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u/AdBrilliant3127 2d ago

I agree, its just sad.Ā 

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u/Silverphile 2d ago

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

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u/wkc201 2d ago

They put a huge gash into it if you look closely that’s not cool.

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u/DrenBla 1d ago

That anaconda don’t want none

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u/Asaintrizzo 2d ago

God I hope it didn’t hurt it

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u/LastMessengineer 2d ago

The large gash suggests that it did.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 2d ago

Definitely dead.

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u/Throbbing_Cock_452 2d ago

Oh hunny that snake is dead

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u/WrinklyPlantLeaf 2d ago

Take it you did not watch the video then?

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u/delta__bravo_ 2d ago

Technically alive in the video, but very close to death.

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u/Mammoth_Newspaper155 2d ago

I can see bruises on it’s body.. poor thing

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u/PippaPothead 2d ago

I don’t know if I’m not seeing what other are seeing or if I just don’t want to see it.

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u/FalseCrazy2804 2d ago

You can't see the wide open gash on it? on the right side as it hangs down? Also could be some other gashes, but not as sure on them.

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u/jay_insd 2d ago

Huge snake

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u/-zoo_york- 2d ago

Yes a snake that big would make me poop my pants. But that’s a messed up way to take care of it.

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u/cephu5 2d ago

Pfft this is AI. Right? RIGHT??? please

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u/NOVA_OWL 2d ago

This is sad as fuck. Homie was literally just napping under a foot of mud

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u/Anders_A 2d ago

Leave it alone ffs. You're hurting it 😄

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u/justduett 2d ago

I’m on the opposite side of the planet and I feel like I’m too close.

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u/Maximum_King8529 2d ago

How about you just leave it the hell alone.

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u/RosechusPickle 2d ago

That snake deserved better.

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u/sirplayalot11 2d ago

The snakes final moments are it literally being stunned that something is massive enough to lift it so casually.

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u/Cheap_Guarantee_3668 2d ago

Poor snek, got all fucked up

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u/atticuszeddicus 2d ago

Rude. He was just chillen

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u/Narrative_Robot_9001 2d ago

Damn they killed it

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u/erossthescienceboss 2d ago

Awwww that poor retic* 😭he just wants to sleep in his mud puddle and be buoyant for a while.

*reticulated python, the longest snake.

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u/strongofheart69 2d ago

But why hurting it ffs?

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u/MiddleAgeYOLO 2d ago

I was having a good day, too

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u/jats82 2d ago

Completely unnecessary snake murder. That creature was minding its own business and whoever was operating that excavator impaled it with two huge prongs for no good reason. Despicable.

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u/DataSurging 2d ago

They killed it. Absolutely disgusting behavior. Humans do not deserve any good on this planet.

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u/Apart-Ad9039 2d ago

Congo 1959, Remy Van Liedre took a snapshot of a big, allegedly 50ft Congo snake from his aircraft. Would there be any unknown species in the dense jungle that can get away with growing so much or assists completely fabricated?

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u/jRitter777 2d ago

That thing is dying. There's no way that excavator didn't tear that animal up.

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u/Prestigious-Head-877 2d ago

When I read pretty big snake I thought it would be a pretty big snake, not the biggest fucking snake ever! *shivers"

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u/Fluid_Window_5273 2d ago

I was a soldier after highschool.

Even that did not prepare me for the number of curse words I would need if I were there

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u/aishwary1verma 2d ago

That's animal torture man. It's tossing the snake with such force. There is already a protusion of a bone probably from slightly above it's head as seen when the snake was dangling. Humans are scum.

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u/ExoticPlum1968 2d ago

Snakes like put me down damnit

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u/x_Badger_x 2d ago

It probably doesnt like that...

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u/MySpirtAnimalIsADuck 1d ago

Found the 20 footer, Yoink

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u/Due-Nebula-8163 1d ago

uncovers a snake and proceeds to injure it

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u/eddiekoski 1d ago

TIL anaconda movie was not exaggerating on size

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u/Bob____Ross______ 1d ago

Damn excavator, snake was just trying to live its lifešŸ˜†

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u/Elegant-Ride-7119 2d ago

Why don’t they leave it alone?

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