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LAD With Balls Of Steel Pulls Dozens Of Pythons Out Of A Hole

LAD With Balls Of Steel Pulls Dozens Of Pythons Out Of A Hole

NOPE!!

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Watching the movie Anaconda and its sequel caused me to put 'being squeezed to death by a slippery serpent' at the top of my list of shitty ways to die.

Why?

I mean, apart from the fact they are downright terrifying, being killed by these ferocious stalkers can also be extremely painful.

They wrap around your body and wait for you to breathe out before tightening their grip until you either suffocate, or have the majority of your organs crushed from your bones breaking.

See, no one wants that.

But Cor Vilioen doesn't share my fear of snakes. On the flip side, he's a snake catcher in South Africa. He was called by a concerned farmer who found a massive nest of snakes and was worried they'd be killed by scared workers.

So, in marches Mr Balls of Steel, who kneels by the entrance to the sandy nest and pulls out an absolute fuck load of pythons.

The 39-year-old double checked their five-metre mum wasn't lurking around before he started the operation.

Check out this video here:

Credit: Caters

Now you might be thinking, 'they're tiny', I don't care. That is a nest full of NOPE!

Even as babies, pythons have around 120 teeth and Cor and his mate both left the site with bloody hands. Luckily these little ones aren't venomous.

Cor says: "I didn't expect to get so many babies out of the tunnel. It was the biggest clutch I have ever taken out. I had only been expecting about 40, everyone was amazed.

"They weren't hard to handle because they were still small. It almost like taking handfuls of spaghetti out of a bowl."

The experienced snake handler relocated the babies to a private nature reserve which spans two thousand hectares. He says they're a protected species so it's necessary to make sure they have a chance to survive.

Now, if you want to see what baby snakes can look like once they've had a few years to roam the wilderness, eating animals the size of antelopes, look no further than this tale.

A 10 metre (33 feet) anaconda is literally the stuff of nightmares and horror movies. It was found on a building site in northern Brazil, weighing an impressive 400kgs.

Unfortunately, the construction workers who found it chained the snake up and killed it. That didn't go down well with some people on the internet, with one commenter saying: "I'm not sure this is real, but if it is, shame on these people for killing it! A snake that big has probably been alive for a very long time now, just to be killed for a few pictures?? What a waste..."

But size doesn't always matter when it comes to snakes.

An Australian mum got the shock of her life after her daughter's picture was photobombed by a very deadly serpent.

What started as a cheeky snap for the photo album quickly turned sinister when Bianca Dickinson was taking a picture of her two-year-old daughter Molly in the Australian outback.

brown snake
brown snake

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Everything seemed perfectly normal until a two-metre long brown snake appeared inches from her daughter.

Talking to The Age, Mrs Dickinson said: "It was really windy. Then I looked up out of the camera to see where the bark went and saw a big mother of a snake.

"I'm surprised it didn't touch her, it was so close. I checked her for bite marks still."

Molly was pretty lucky as the Eastern brown snake is the second most venomous terrestrial snake and has been credited with around 60 per cent of the snake bite deaths in Australia.

Their venom is known to cause diarrhoea, dizziness, collapse, convulsions, renal failure, paralysis and cardiac arrest - any one of which sounds fucking grim.

Featured Image Credit: Caters

Topics: south africa

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