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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[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Those snakes have made it to here. Not long ago, two were found and one had eaten a small goat.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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.

Well, certain snake venomes will kill you extremely fast.

Very b
Venomous snakes won't eat you either z they're too small.

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.

Goddamn.... I had a biology and environmental sciences teacher in HS who had cute little chameleons and a smallish lizard and a snake.

He showed us a centipede one day and HOLY Christ those things have horrific looking fangs.

Never had any snake bigger than 6 feet he said as after that it's longer than most people and gets unmanageable.

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

Any hungry enough predator will go for a person

As for sharks, once they get bigger than you, ex. 7+ feet they get pretty dangerous and at 10+ feet watch out.

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.

Yep, ambush predators want you nice and alone

Actually fuckin horrifying.
I will simply never travel to a country that has snakes that can eat my whole.

Florida has a horrid problem with Burmese pythons. They need to exterminate them

There is a problem in FL with wild Burmese pythons, I assume they were pets that got let out in the wild but they are taking over and I believe you can get a license to go capture or kill these invaders. Also I think a full grown one at 12-18 foot could easily kill and maybe eat a child

Yep too bad they aren't killing them fast enough.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

Yep too bad they aren't killing them fast enough.

Yea I've looked at a few youtube vids of people going out and collecting all the invasive species and its crazy, 4-5ft iguanas just chilling on a tree branch and 10 foot pythons. How could you release something like that into the wild makes no sense to me. But I remember back in the 80s you could get a babyish iguana at a roadside fruit market or a fleamarket all over Florida so many they over sold the damn things

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Yea I've looked at a few youtube vids of people going out and collecting all the invasive species and its crazy, 4-5ft iguanas just chilling on a tree branch and 10 foot pythons. How could you release something like that into the wild makes no sense to me. But I remember back in the 80s you could get a babyish iguana at a roadside fruit market or a fleamarket all over Florida so many they over sold the damn things

People are dumbasses in general, especially the ones to import Burmese pythons

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

People are dumbasses in general, especially the ones to import Burmese pythons

Yea, I think between idiots selling them at literal roadside markets to idiots releasing them when they find out its not fun to feed a snake a fucking rabbit created a perfect storm here

 

[Snekposter]

They can but it’s pretty unusual I think.

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult Burmese pythons caught in Florida average between 1.8 m (6 ft) and 2.7 m (9 ft); the largest Burmese captured in Florida measured over 5.4 m (18 ft) in length.

As if I needed yet another reason to avoid Florida like the plague....

Which it probably has, now that I think about it.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

As if I needed yet another reason to avoid Florida like the plague....

Which it probably has, now that I think about it.

I doubt you will ever see a Burmese python going about your daily life, but if you go into the woods or park or something its highly possible. I don't think they are brave like copperheads

 

[Snekposter]

I doubt you will ever see a Burmese python going about your daily life, but if you go into the woods or park or something its highly possible. I don't think they are brave like copperheads

I've been to Florida and outside the major urban areas its much like every other part of the USA that's outside a major city: the natural environment is in charge. One group of people I visited had a gator that lived in the neighborhood drainage pond they just treated as normal. So, it probably is. Expecting dangerous predators in Florida is like expecting deer in saner, less lethal parts of the country.

 

[MadStan]

When you double the length of an animal, you increase its mass by 800%. So for a moment imagine this 16 foot python is 800% larger and that's how large they can get in the wild if food is abundant (the largest recorded was 33 feet). So the guy how couldn't imagine his 4 foot snake being a human killer needs to think if his snake weighed 5 pounds and is 4 feet long, by the time it is 8 feet it is 40 pounds, by the time its 16 feet its 320 pounds and by the time its 32 feet it's a 2500 pound beast.

I know this science from being a Federal Breast Inspector.

 

[Point and Laugh]

The good thing about the pythons in Florida is that they’re naturally limited to how far they’ll ever be able to go. Not that it makes a difference to the massive disruption to the ecosystem in Florida. But the people importing and breeding these snakes are the issue.

You can easily buy a baby Burmese or Reticulated python anywhere in the U.S. if you’re inclined. But 99% of people who do have no ability to house these snakes or manage them past a couple years. And they can live 20+ years. It’s cruel and stupid.

 

[AfghanBlue]

I wonder if vore fetishists fap to news like this.

I wonder if masochists have a wank when they stub their toe or have a really nasty headache.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

The good thing about the pythons in Florida is that they’re naturally limited to how far they’ll ever be able to go

Yea just the temperature alone should keep them in FL and maybe Southern GA, but maybe they can only live in Southern FL. I don't really know their temp needs but since they come from a tropical hellhole I assume FL is pretty much the only place in America they could survive

 

[Dysnomia]

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

I remember reading that Slash got rid of his snakes after he had kids because he was afraid they'd end up as lunch. Axl told a story once about staying at Slash's house and waking up to an escaped python staring at him. Snakes are cute. But I wouldn't want one as a pet. Mainly because I have kept their prey as pets and I just couldn't deal with that. I love mice and rats too much.

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.

She was Indonesian. So a tiny SEA lady. Loose pythons in America aren't swallowing people whole very often are they? I don't think I've heard of any recent cases. Unlike gators they can't chomp you up into convenient pieces.

 

[Point and Laugh]

Loose pythons in America aren't swallowing people whole very often are they

from what I could find

Human fatalities from non-venomous snakes are very rare, probably averaging one or two per year worldwide. All known constrictor-snake fatalities in the United States are from captive snakes.

And this is specifically referring to deaths. From what I can find, there’s been no cases of anyone actually being eaten after being killed.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This lady must have been small.
Constrictors tend to eat head-first, and the usual problem when it comes to people is the size of the shoulders in relation to the head/neck.
This is extremely rare.

I've seen pythons do this trick in bars.

If a snake tells you he accidentally swallowed a twenty dollar bill and needs someone to retrieve it, DO NOT BELIEVE HIM!

 

[Mac Monster]

There was one a while back where it’s eaten a croc and got split open or something?

Bit of a late reply, but that happened in Florida. A Burmese python ate a gator that was too big for it, so the dead gator ruptured out of its stomach and killed it. Here's a picture of the remains.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I don't know about you all, but I'm not going to be sleeping ever again. How does one sleep when creatures like that lurk in the night?

 

[Otterly]

I don't know about you all, but I'm not going to be sleeping ever again. How does one sleep when creatures like that lurk in the night?

With profound gratitude for stone walls and cold winters

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

Bit of a late reply, but that happened in Florida. A Burmese python ate a gator that was too big for it, so the dead gator ruptured out of its stomach and killed it. Here's a picture of the remains.
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Jesus christ lol

 

[Male Idiot]

Gators are still the King of Florida!

That said, be a metalhead and wear a spiked collar.