Woman swallowed whole by a python in Indonesia, second such killing in a month

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Damn, I missed the "by a" and thought a woman swallowed a python and thought, "fuck yeah, see how you like it, you bastard!"
Need my coffee.
- I love this
If I had a nickel...
- I'd have 3 nickels which isn't a lot but weird that it happened three times.
Dumb question but the snake kills the person before swallowing them right?
- The snake usually constricts the person or animal until they die by suffocation, due to an inability to expand the lungs. There have been cases where they eat living creatures, including people, but suffocation is pretty guaranteed once they swallow the head.
  
  What a shitty way to go, if you're not quite dead before it decides to swallow you 😫
When I was growing up in Jakarta, they found two enormous pythons in the culvert right next to the elementary school. They sacrificed a goat to lure them out, then when they were dated they just packed them up and took them to a local safari park. The smaller one was about 21 feet long, while the bigger one was 24 or 25. Just huge.
- Thoar's a very calculated and mature response to something that could literally eat you children
  
  They found kraits in culverts next to the kindergarten the next year. They just killed those.
  
  On a side note, mosquitos can literally eat your children too. Pineapple too.
that's why i grew so large; so i can't be swallowed easily.
- Python: .. hsssss ... challenge accepted.
I dunno what would be a better attempt at self defense against such large snakes, but I think I'd start carrying around both pepper spray and also a stun gun, just in case.
No idea if either would be fully effective, but damn that would be a hell of a way to go, might as well try to be prepared to defend myself.
- I'll take a machete and a shot gun thanks.
  
  You spelled flamethrower wrong.
- Fair enough, seems a handy enough trick.
  In that case, I'd probably carry around a super soaker water gun loaded with some strong alcohol, and just hope I'd be able to shoot it at a distance before it gets close enough to wrap around me.
  Could also in a pinch light the alcohol on fire as a crude flamethrower, packing a double punch...
- Wear a special constrictor armor that deploys buzz saws if it's ever squeezed with enough force to break ribs.
  
  Snek scoffs at humans' tiny bite force.