UN Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia - The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.

The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).

The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.

Her husband "found her belongings... which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly," said Suardi.

"They agreed to cut open the python's stomach. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately visible."

Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.

Graphic video published by TMZ appeared to show the snake being cut open in a wooded area while more footage posted by the Daily Mail appeared to show the woman's body being carried in a blanket past distressed villagers.

Other similar incidents in recent years​

Reticulated pythons grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole. They are widespread in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, and are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.


A reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) wriggles over a tree trunk at Hagenbeck Zoo in December 2021.
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Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.

Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi's Tinanggea district killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.

In 2022, a woman in Indonesia's Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, the BBC reported, citing local media.

In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a seven-meter python in Southeast Sulawesi's Muna town. Officials said the victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village.

In 2017, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found eaten alive by a four-meter python at a palm oil plantation. A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed villagers slicing open the python's carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar. Villagers said the victim was likely ambushed from behind.

"Reputation for being aggressive"​

The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to London's Natural History Museum. They are native to Southern Asia and can grow to be more than 20 feet long.

The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – "more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall."

Zoo Atlanta, which houses reticulated pythons, says the snakes "have a reputation for being aggressive."

The snakes are occasionally kept as pets in the U.S.

Last year, a 14-foot-long reticulated python was found dead on side of the road on Long Island, prompting a search for its owner.

In 2022, a 16-foot albino reticulated python that slithered through a Texas neighborhood for months was finally rescued and returned to its owner.

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[Invader Xe/Xim]

God I wish that were me.

 

[Breadbassket]

Here is footage of the snake being cut open to retrieve the body of the woman.

Spoiler

This may or may not be the same video posted by TMZ.

A photo that is slightly less censored then the footage shows the person inside of the python.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed villagers slicing open the python's carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar. Villagers said the victim was likely ambushed from behind

Ambushed from behind by a python?

Sounds pretty gay.

 

[Claude Sigma]

more than half the length of a bowling lane

I always wonder who these comparaisons are for.
First you think of women, for whom "33 feet" doesn't mean anything, but women don't know how long a bowling lane is either, so who is the retard that hears about "half the length of a bowling lane" and goes "ah, now I see, is it quite long indeed"?

 

[WonderWino]

Well, it looks like we finally found a woman for Vee

That said holy shit that must have been a horrifying way to go

 

[cybertoaster]

I always wonder who these comparaisons are for.
First you think of women, for whom "33 feet" doesn't mean anything, but women don't know how long a bowling lane is either, so who is the retard that hears about "half the length of a bowling lane" and goes "ah, now I see, is it quite long indeed"?

You're not American if you don't measure your weight in BigMacs, your height in bald eagles and the size of your town in football fields.

 

[Claude Sigma]

That said holy shit that must have been a horrifying way to go

Ackhtually, pythons kill through constriction, they coil around you and put enough pressure to impede blood circulation, causing cardiac arrest because the blood isn't circulating properly and the heart isn't strong enough to keep going. In most cases you are asleep in less then a minute almost painlessly because you lose consciousness through lack of blood circulation in the brain. The same way you do a blood choke in MMA and the guy passes out after 7 seconds.

It's a lot less horrifying than being bit by a venomous snake (pythons aren't venomous) and feel your body panic from the venom and slowly die.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

It's always a mother of four. Always. It's a journalism thing. (I went looking for the scene from the Wire talking about that, but I am fail.)

 

[Barry Williams]

Ackhtually, pythons kill through constriction, they coil around you and put enough pressure to impede blood circulation, causing cardiac arrest because the blood isn't circulating properly and the heart isn't strong enough to keep going. In most cases you are asleep in less then a minute almost painlessly because you lose consciousness through lack of blood circulation in the brain. The same way you do a blood choke in MMA and the guy passes out after 7 seconds.

It's a lot less horrifying than being bit by a venomous snake (pythons aren't venomous) and feel your body panic from the venom and slowly die.

See guys vore is painless this guy says so.

 

[Spastic]

Weird coincidence.

 

[I am batman]

I wonder if vore fetishists fap to news like this.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

Large pythons can be dangerous and I wouldn't want one as a pet. I had a very good and interesting biology teacher in junior high who kept a ton of different snakes in his classroom. At one point he had rattlesnakes, but the State told him to get rid of them in the 80s so I missed out on that since I attended his class in 1990 (he showed videos of this time which is why I know about it). When I was in his class, he had a reticulated python that was huge and it took like six or seven of us to carry it. A couple of years after I left his class, the python attacked him one day and tried to constrict him to death so that was the end of owning large snakes like that.

He also used to feed some of his snakes live prey, so I saw a large Norwegian rat get killed by a snake and it was pretty horrific and I still have upsetting memories of it. He also taught us about poisonous plants in our neighborhood, so he was a bit strange.

He once told me about how one of his students' parents had a bunch of kittens that they wanted to get rid of, so they offered them to him as snake food. He fed them (reluctantly, he said) to his large snakes and the kittens had worms, so the snakes ended up vomiting up a bunch of still living worms. In hindsight he was a really creepy teacher, though he was quite knowledgeable of the subject matter.

 

[mister fireworks]

I have a ball python. It was a gift. I keep it at the office and its ok. I'm trying to figure out how to be the best owner I can be, but I'm more of a dog person. The snake was dumped at my friend's place and she owns a pet shop so has plenty of other creatures to deal with so she gave me the snake and its habitat/heating pad/other accessories.

Though I guess its a constrictor like all pythons, i feed it small mice and it must be able to sense that the things are completely dead because it just kind of bops around for a few minutes then gobbles the mouse in one quick motion. Someone told me a horror story about how their snake puked up a mouse that it ate and i was worried about having to deal with that. but when I asked the worker at my friend's shop, he said as long as the mouse isnt too big, the snake doesnt usually puke it up. "too big" means larger the circumference of the snake. Based on the photo, the woman's body was 2-3x or even more wider than the snake. The reason why they puke up prey that is too big is because if they don't the prey can literally kill it, or immobilize it so long that it becomes prey to something else.

Based on the size of the snakes in these articles it seems strange that they would be hunting/attacking the humans found inside of them. The ratio of snake:human size is all off. It makes more sense to me that these people might have fallen/been drunk/knocked out and gotten really unlucky as the snake was around and it couldnt pass up the easy meal. I dont know how long my snake is, but i think its like 4ish ft all stretched out. But its pretty small. It doesnt make sense to me that even scaled up 400% that it would hunt prey the size of a human but I dunno.

Its the same logic as sharks. I have swam in water with lots of 6-8sh ft sharks. Its kind of weird to get used to at first, but in open water they are harmless, because even though they are much larger, stronger, faster than a full grown adult human, they go after shit that is like 1/10th their size because its not worth the risk to fuck with something bigger than necessary which might fight back and injure it or just cost it precious calorie resources that it wouldnt have to spend eating small stuff

 

[peachlover669]

I always wonder who these comparaisons are for.
First you think of women, for whom "33 feet" doesn't mean anything, but women don't know how long a bowling lane is either, so who is the retard that hears about "half the length of a bowling lane" and goes "ah, now I see, is it quite long indeed"?

a more accurate descriptor would have been "5 and a half times the height of your husband"

 

[Caligura]

Large pythons can be dangerous and I wouldn't want one as a pet. I had a very good and interesting biology teacher in junior high who kept a ton of different snakes in his classroom. At one point he had rattlesnakes, but the State told him to get rid of them in the 80s so I missed out on that since I attended his class in 1990 (he showed videos of this time which is why I know about it). When I was in his class, he had a reticulated python that was huge and it took like six or seven of us to carry it. A couple of years after I left his class, the python attacked him one day and tried to constrict him to death so that was the end of owning large snakes like that.

He also used to feed some of his snakes live prey, so I saw a large Norwegian rat get killed by a snake and it was pretty horrific and I still have upsetting memories of it. He also taught us about poisonous plants in our neighborhood, so he was a bit strange.

He once told me about how one of his students' parents had a bunch of kittens that they wanted to get rid of, so they offered them to him as snake food. He fed them (reluctantly, he said) to his large snakes and the kittens had worms, so the snakes ended up vomiting up a bunch of still living worms. In hindsight he was a really creepy teacher, though he was quite knowledgeable of the subject matter.

Still better than modern teachers today by virtue of at least having... A personality and passion for their job, in a fucked up way, but still. Oh and I didn't see any mention of grooming kids, so good on that too.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Based on the size of the snakes in these articles it seems strange that they would be hunting/attacking the humans found inside of them. The ratio of snake:human size is all off. It makes more sense to me that these people might have fallen/been drunk/knocked out and gotten really unlucky as the snake was around and it couldnt pass up the easy meal. I dont know how long my snake is, but i think its like 4ish ft all stretched out. But its pretty small. It doesnt make sense to me that even scaled up 400% that it would hunt prey the size of a human but I dunno.

These large snake are ambus predators and not particularly picky. They are not smart animals, as long as the pray smells eatable and they get an easy opportunity to attack it's fine. It's actually perfectly normal for a snake to try eat way too large pray and then failing at it.

As far why people get killed, honestly these snakes are completely capable of killing an average person on a normal day because you won't see it coming until it's too late. The snakes have a good camouflage, can fit to surprisingly small caps and slow moving until they aren't. They stricke extremely fast and go for the full body strangle immediately. If gets to that point and you are alone... You won't be able to do anything.

 

[mister fireworks]

These large snake are ambus predators and not particularly picky. They are not smart animals, as long as the pray smells eatable and they get an easy opportunity to attack it's fine. It's actually perfectly normal for a snake to try eat way too large pray and then failing at it.

As far why people get killed, honestly these snakes are completely capable of killing an average person on a normal day because you won't see it coming until it's too late. The snakes have a good camouflage, can fit to surprisingly small caps and slow moving until they aren't. They stricke extremely fast and go for the full body strangle immediately. If gets to that point and you are alone... You won't be able to do anything.

How thick do you reckon these man eating snakes are at their widest? The regurgitation reflex on the snake is there to protect it just like you said, from it chomping down on something much too large, which probably happens often in the wild. I guess I'm just surprised that they would be able to kill a person who is awake and functioning, even at their large size. Do you know if there are lots of reports of people getting attacked and fighting off the snakes? I wish I could show you a pic of my snake and the mice that it eats. the scale is so vastly different between the two, and even then the little retard still just gulps it in one bite, that I guess I just cant visualize the horror of a snake constricting a human.

Another anecdote from a long time ago is when I was at a party and the host had a big python. it seemed 10-15 feet long? Its hard for me to remember. I put it around my neck and it slithered around me and I could feel it clenching around my biceps. It felt like one of those blood pressure tests you take in a grocery pharmacy. They had young children living there too. I remember being creeped out about that. I guess now that I'm thinking about it, if you tripled the size of the snake and had it somehow spring out and lasso itself around my neck it could easily kill me. But if I'm 6 ft tall, I dont know if it would be able to body strangle someone my size, or even lets say 5 ft tall since these people are probably smaller. Do snakes ever just go for the neck? if it wrapped around my neck I wouldnt be able to remove it even with my hands free I bet.

Now that I'm autistically fixated on this, I wonder if there is some sort of ant-snake thing you could wear on your neck like a spiked collar or something to get them to fuck off? maybe a vest with a pull cord that would inflate if you pressed a panic button? lol i dunno jesus christ glad i dont live anywhere near this shit.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

. I guess I'm just surprised that they would be able to kill a person who is awake and functioning, even at their large size

I could see a 16ft snake being able to kill a person but it shocks me it could eat the same person. I mean just a 4-5 snake has amazing strength when it constricts I couldn't imagine a snake that's 16foot constricting around my waist or something, it would make it impossible to breath. But its shocking to me that a humans wide hips could be eaten by a snake, how big of a head did this thing have? And I guess how small was the woman. Also to eat 4 kids after a adult woman is a bit much

 

[Point and Laugh]

I have seen a documentary that talks about why more humans aren’t killed by these huge constrictors. Our shoulders are an obstacle that most prey animals don’t have. We aren’t really shaped well for a snake to eat quickly, which matters because they’re incredibly vulnerable while eating. In these cases my guess is they’re very small people to begin with so don’t pose much of an obstacle to get past the shoulders.

@mister fireworks my retarded pythons don’t even grab them right half the time but they always wrap the whole body, I doubt a snake is smart enough to target the neck area. A really large reticulated python could easily subdue a small woman if she was completely caught off guard. I think it’s a questionable they should even be kept as pets tbh. They need huge enclosures most people can never provide.