Video: Python attack!
posted at 9:24 pm on October 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Nerve-wracking until you find out (a) the guy was fine, notwithstanding the fact that he was wading around in a big pool of bat dookie when the snake stuck its fangs in and opened up the wound, and (b) he’s now doing guest shots on the O’Reilly Factor to promote the show, which makes the whole thing darkly comical. Tune in next week when Bil and Tonya Reiman analyze his body language while the python wound around his torso.
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Did they have any hydrogen peroxide on hand?
Editor on October 12, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Um…I’m thinking he’s got a bad bite. What do you think?
tickleddragon on October 12, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Quothe the caveman:
“ahhhh – whatttt?
Happy Friday, everyone….
Timothy S. Carlson on October 12, 2007 at 9:30 PM
O’Reilly’s interview with this guy tonight was pretty amusing.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2007 at 9:30 PM
I can’t wait to see the bite wound.
frreal on October 12, 2007 at 9:34 PM
It wasn’t that cool.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2007 at 9:34 PM
Moral of the story? Don’t piss off a dangerous snake.
amerpundit on October 12, 2007 at 9:35 PM
I break hard for snakes… so I can cut ‘em in half with a good skid.
T J Green on October 12, 2007 at 9:38 PM
I think he said something about a bite, but it is really hard to tell.
nottakingsides on October 12, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Moral of the story? Why are you even near dangerous snakes? Low IQ = reality channel…
Timothy S. Carlson on October 12, 2007 at 9:41 PM
If something like that started wrapping around me I’d be screaming for a chainsaw.
boomer on October 12, 2007 at 9:44 PM
In some churches they handle snakes, but even they stay away from pythons.
I think the snake was thinking, “mmmmmmmm lunch.”
Tennessee Dave on October 12, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Dookies? Snake bite?
Sepsis anyone?
Kokonut on October 12, 2007 at 9:46 PM
Pffftt. Wussy.
SouthernDem on October 12, 2007 at 9:48 PM
Your in a dark cave,and snakes have sharpe fangs,
and your in mucky type water,lets see this is about smart as
being in a cave and your up to your privates in gasoline,
and you think your smelling natural gas,but you can’t see well in the dark and your buddy doesn’t think it’s a wise decision to light that match thats dry in your shirt pocket.haha
canopfor on October 12, 2007 at 9:53 PM
I think he said something about a bite, but it is really hard to tell.
nottakingsides on October 12, 2007 at 9:39 PM
I dunno – it was pretty hard to tell, if you ask me, whether he had a bite or not. He wasn’t all that clear about it…
reine.de.tout on October 12, 2007 at 9:58 PM
Did anyone ever hear about the browntree snake problem
they had at one of the US airforce’s base,I think it was Gaum!Snakes in the fields,outdoor bathrooms,runways,etc!
canopfor on October 12, 2007 at 10:00 PM
That’s nuthin’. I once battled a two-headed dragon with a Monchichi doll while standing in a pile of tie-dyed unicorn crap. Oh wait, I think that was my cousin Frank when he was visiting Amsterdam. My bad.
robblefarian on October 12, 2007 at 10:02 PM
So how big was the snake?
peacenprosperity on October 12, 2007 at 10:03 PM
That was much worse than the trash compactor on the Death Star.
So if you wade waist deep in bat guano, are rabies shots a forgone conclusion?
Nosferightu on October 12, 2007 at 10:04 PM
“Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid.”
John Wayne
DAT60A3 on October 12, 2007 at 10:08 PM
What in the world are these people thinking when they do these things????? What do they expect? The mall is a much safer place.
mimi1220 on October 12, 2007 at 10:24 PM
At the mall they put sugar in your gas tank to kidnap you on the way home. They put flyers in your back window so you will get out to remove them and car jack you. I hear also if you go into the bathrooms they’ll chloroform you and steal your kidneys to sell do a needy donor in China.
Tennessee Dave on October 12, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Pfff…John Rambo would have eaten the snake alive and spit out its bones…then sew the bad bite.
Ropera on October 12, 2007 at 10:37 PM
From what I heard it was a 12 foot retic.
I loved how he screamed like a little school girl. LOL
I work with snakes – don’t handle them unless you plan on getting bit.
It must have stung, though….
Dr. Gecko on October 12, 2007 at 10:37 PM
On O’Reily he said… when you are dealing with wild animals sometimes they do unpredictable things. No. When you are messing with a snake waist deep in guano in a dark cave, the results are pretty predictable. Glad he’s OK even though he probably deserved that bite.
Ordinary1 on October 12, 2007 at 10:40 PM
I can deal with that, but keep the big fat ugly snake away from me.
Maxx on October 12, 2007 at 10:48 PM
A “really bad bite”? I’ve been bitten by a python. It’s no big deal. I certainly didn’t scream like a little girl.
BDavis on October 12, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Did the snake bite him or was it the guy next to him? Was that the tail of snake he was holding?
Nelsa on October 12, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Ha! ROFLMAO!
That was the funniest thing…at least all day.
nailinmyeye on October 12, 2007 at 11:13 PM
“Holy crap dude! You were seconds from death from that deadly poisonous snake!”
“Well….those snakes aren’t poisonous.”
“But you were only seconds fron death, right!?”
“Well…I was…like, covered in disgusting bat sh*t!”
“So….I guess you’re promoting a new TV show then…”
“Yeah! Lemme tell you all about it!”
infidel4life on October 13, 2007 at 12:21 AM
…or just poured some gunpowder in, lit it and burned it shut. After his meal of course.
91Veteran on October 13, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Did it bite you from under the water in a dark cave filled with bat s#!t?
Not trying to attack you or anything but under the circumstances I think the screaming was appropriate.
Yakko77 on October 13, 2007 at 12:37 AM
“A really bad bite” must be comparative to a relatively harmless bite and a neutral standard bite. If this well paid git has not been differentially bitten at least three times by pythons in bat sewerage caves then he doesn’t know what he is talking about.
BL@KBIRD on October 13, 2007 at 12:43 AM
This kind bite (I believe he might have termed it a ‘bad bite’) is really hard to prevent. I mean the only thing he could have done to avoid the apparently bad bite would have to been to stay out of the cave, not gone waist deep in bat shit and not started grabbing a Python.
I mean come on, how is any normal person supposed to avoid that kind of problem?
Drew on October 13, 2007 at 1:17 AM
If you listen really closely, you can hear Steve Irwin rolling in his grave as he hears this sissy squeal.
Vinnie on October 13, 2007 at 1:21 AM
Dude’s gotta bad bite.
hillbillyjim on October 13, 2007 at 2:25 AM
What did he think was going to happen? They’re wading around in batshit and then they decide to try to pull a large python out of its hole by its tail. What did they think the snake was going to do?
kinda reminds me of the first Star Wars movie when Leia, Luke, Chewie and Han end up in the trash compactor with that creature and it pulls Luke under. Heh.
PRCalDude on October 13, 2007 at 2:51 AM
“Not trying to attack you or anything but under the circumstances I think the screaming was appropriate.”
No, not so much. The guy is doing one of those shows like Irwin and Corwin. If you have so little experience with animals that a non venemous snake bit makes you scream like a girly girl, then you are in over your head and shouldn’t be doing it. Watch the video cirulating of the police in Central or South America wrestling a 15 food Anaconda (I believe). The think locks down on his hand for quite some time. I don’t hear any girly screaming going on there, just some shouting which I presume to be Spanish swearing. GMAB, this guy was either 1) overdramatizing for ratings or 2) not the appropriate host for the show.
rayvet on October 13, 2007 at 6:11 AM
The take away lessons here:
1. Don’t tromp around in guano soup.
2. Don’t jack with snakes.
3. If by chance you do grab a big python, let it the f**k go!
That snake was just minding his own business.
All these so-called naturalists need to cease and desist.
TheSitRep on October 13, 2007 at 8:47 AM
What an idiot. Nature is not kind. It is mean and will kill you if given the chance. We spent the last 50,000 years trying to escape from nature now these nitwits want us to embrace it. Give me the comforts of home/technology anyday. Al Gore is an idiot also.
unseen on October 13, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Did anyone in that cave think about the obvious…that critters are more afraid of you than you are of them.
Let the beasty’s tail go and release the snake…it swims off free and easy like…you go to a hospital.
Geez, quick thinking gentlemen.
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on October 13, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Do you think these guys graduated from collage?
If they did…I don’t think it helped all that much.
Sgt. Khe Sahn and sons Chance and Hunter 10 and 7 years old.
1GooDDaDDy on October 13, 2007 at 12:04 PM
Drama queen idiot. “I want my mommy!! Waaaaahhhh Waaaahhh!!”
MrC_5150 on October 13, 2007 at 1:41 PM
Amen, brother. Python. Pfftt.
Try swimming through the pool of hormones that comes from living with 3 teenage girls without getting hurt. Now that’s nature at it’s most dangerous.
BacaDog on October 13, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Now that’s funny! Fear for your life!!
Redhead Infidel on October 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM
NO, he didn’t say he had a “bad bite”. He put his hand around something circular, cold, and hard, and thought he had hit pay dirt. That’s why he screamed in joy. He said, I got a Bud Light! That’s why he wanted out of the water. He got the beer he came for.
jihadwatcher on October 13, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Don’t bite me, Bro!
Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to look for huge snakes in an underground pool of bat crap?
Guardian on October 13, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Pythons have about a hundred sharp backward curved teeth.
Hilts on October 13, 2007 at 11:29 PM
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