Anyone for a nap?

Rob_NC · 10-20-2003, 07:54 AM

A CREW MEMBER ON A LAND OIL RIG IN THE AMAZON WENT OUT AND TOOK A NAP. YES, A NAP. HE WAS MISSING AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FOUND

Rob_NC · 10-20-2003, 07:55 AM

Another

Rob_NC · 10-20-2003, 07:56 AM

And finally...

Tboy · 10-20-2003, 08:24 AM

This is rumored to be a fake. The bulge of the snake seems to be the outline of a pig and not a human. The third pic is the one that is supposed to be the fake.

kuso · 10-20-2003, 08:28 AM

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Originally posted by Tboy
This is rumored to be a fake. The bulge of the snake seems to be the outline of a pig and not a human. The third pic is the one that is supposed to be the fake.

I`ve heard, and read the same. The location seems to change every time you see it posted too.........

Its like that shark jumping up to attack that dude hanging off the ladder of the helicopter

derekisdman · 10-20-2003, 11:11 AM

Yes I agree - fake. Darned anaconda movie wannabe. Atleast the pictures look more real than that cgi snake crap.

david · 10-20-2003, 11:44 AM

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Originally posted by Rob_NC
And finally...

Yuck!

Tboy · 10-20-2003, 12:03 PM

I dug through some old emails from a herp news group I belong to. This photo's was talked about quite a bit by serveral "pro's" in the herp world. Here is a couple of them, for and against the pics

Quote:

A discussion of the bottom photo was recently conducted on the python
forum at kingsnake.com. Here's a reiteration of what I posted then.

1. Why do we see no stomach lining? Can you see the villagers cutting
the boy carefully out of the stomach, washing off the fluids, cleaning up
the blood vessels and other anatomical features that normally appear under
the snake's backbone, removing the stomach lining, and leaving the boy in
the snake? The back end of the snake looks way, way too clean, like it
had been neatly eviscerated for food use, scraped and washed. Where is
the peritoneal membrane? Where are the clumped fatty processes you are
likely to see in a healthy snake of that size at that juncture of its
anatomy? Absence of these features is highly inconsistent with the human
victim's being left in. When you open a snake's stomach, it is messy in
there. Moreover, the boy is positioned in the lower area of the stomach
near the colon, where prey doesn't usually go until it's at least partly
digested and compacted. Anybody else here familiar enough with necropsies
to be highly suspicious? I think somebody got a shot of a python
eviscerated for "bush meat", prepared for food, and couldn't resist
amusing themselves by graphically layering the picture with something more
interesting.

2. No toothmarks on the naked legs. Retics walk their prey like any
other snake. I know a fellow who had his arm swallowed by a boa, and he
managed to extract it without hurting the snake...but his arm was bruised
nastily and covered with signature teethmarks. Retics have longer teeth
than Columbian boas. This would be hard to fake in a graphics program,
so this detail was omitted.

3. Shape of the bulge in the snake in the upper photos is consistent with
a four-legged meal, but not an upright biped. The bulge created by a
human inside a snake would not look square. It would be long and
tapering, as the legs would be straight out and the arms folded down and
compressed to the torso. A quadruped would fit the "square" profile of
the bulge in the snake perfectly, particularly with the double telltale
bulges at either end that suggest a quadruped's folded legs.

4. The bottom photo is of a drastically different quality than the first
two, which I would judge to be authentic and unretouched pictures of
people abusing a large reticulated python with somebody's pig or lamb
inside of it. Suspicious patches of blurry pixels exist in telltale
places in the third photo. In addition, the snake in the third photo
simply does not appear to be the same snake in the first two photos,
either by pattern, size or color.

My conclusion: somebody's been having much too much fun with PhotoShop. A
large retic certainly could eat a small human, but this case isn't likely
to be a photographic record of such an instance. The details I have read
that were accurately and reliably reported of a python's ingesting a young
child do not match these photos at all.

Quote:

Although I stongly suspect that you are right about this being a hoax,
let's just play devil's advocate here:

> 1. Why do we see no stomach lining? Can you see the villagers cutting
> the boy carefully out of the stomach, washing off the fluids, cleaning up
> the blood vessels and other anatomical features that normally appear under
> the snake's backbone, removing the stomach lining, and leaving the boy in
> the snake?

From what I have seen, opening the stomach of a snake that has just
eaten a very large meal need not be that messy: the stomach walls will
be extremely stretched, and, once opened, will easily pull back. You can
see part of the stomach wall around the foot of the body - that part of
the picture does not look touched up.

> The back end of the snake looks way, way too clean, like it
> had been neatly eviscerated for food use, scraped and washed.

You may be looking at the inside of the stomach wall lining the
abdominal cavity - the blood vessels etc. would be on the other side fo
the stomach wall, and hence invisible.

> Where is
> the peritoneal membrane? Where are the clumped fatty processes you are
> likely to see in a healthy snake of that size at that juncture of its
> anatomy?

From what I have seen, these are usually in the posterior part of the
abdomen, behing the posterior end of the stomach. The posterior part of
an ingested prey item, as seen here, is situated in the anterior part of
the snake, hence I would not expect to see much in the way of fat bodies
there.

> 2. No toothmarks on the naked legs. Retics walk their prey like any
> other snake. I know a fellow who had his arm swallowed by a boa, and he
> managed to extract it without hurting the snake...but his arm was bruised
> nastily and covered with signature teethmarks. Retics have longer teeth
> than Columbian boas. This would be hard to fake in a graphics program,
> so this detail was omitted.

Not necessarily - by the time the head end of the prey has gone far
enough down the snake's neck, much of the swallowing effort will be due
to peristalsis in the neck/anterior body area - by the time a rat's legs
go down a normal snake's throat, that is the main moving force. And, as
Scott Greene pointed out, dead bodies don't bleed much. A substantial
amount of time would elapse bewteen the killing of a human, and the
snake progressing to the legs.

> 3. Shape of the bulge in the snake in the upper photos is consistent with
> a four-legged meal, but not an upright biped. The bulge created by a
> human inside a snake would not look square. It would be long and
> tapering, as the legs would be straight out and the arms folded down and
> compressed to the torso. A quadruped would fit the "square" profile of
> the bulge in the snake perfectly, particularly with the double telltale
> bulges at either end that suggest a quadruped's folded legs.

Agree 100%

>
> 4. The bottom photo is of a drastically different quality than the first
> two, which I would judge to be authentic and unretouched pictures of
> people abusing a large reticulated python with somebody's pig or lamb
> inside of it. Suspicious patches of blurry pixels exist in telltale
> places in the third photo. In addition, the snake in the third photo
> simply does not appear to be the same snake in the first two photos,
> either by pattern, size or color.

Agree as well.

The other thing that is surprising is the area of missing skin on one
leg, pointed out by Scott Greene: digestion starts at the hed end of the
prey, so it would be very unlikely that a patch of digested skin would
be present on the leg, unless this is an injury incurred before the
(supposed) snake attack.

On a related amtter, there are other pictures of a snake that supposedly
swallowed a human at the following URLS:

http://www.internettrash.com/users/s...an/index2.html

Cheers,

Blieb · 10-20-2003, 12:20 PM

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/animals/anaconda.htm

*phew*

I still would be weary of falling asleep out there!

10-20-2003, 08:24 AM	#4
Tboy Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Lewsiana Posts: 1,207	This is rumored to be a fake. The bulge of the snake seems to be the outline of a pig and not a human. The third pic is the one that is supposed to be the fake. I pedal... Therefore I am. ~ You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything. ~

10-20-2003, 11:11 AM	#6
derekisdman RAWR! Elite Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,294	Yes I agree - fake. Darned anaconda movie wannabe. Atleast the pictures look more real than that cgi snake crap. Homer: Hey! I saved your life! That egg sandwich could have killed you by cholesterol. Lenny: Pfft, forget it, Homer. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human blood stream.

10-20-2003, 12:20 PM	#9
Blieb w00t! Elite Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 453 Photos: 9	http://www.snopes.com/horrors/animals/anaconda.htm phew I still would be weary of falling asleep out there! My Sites: epock.com outcrier.com

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