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Originally Posted by Squirtle
So it's fine to hold him around my shoulders, but I must have someone within yelling distance?
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The danger of a snake around your neck isn't that it goes postal and starts squeezing the snot out of you to kill you. That is when you would "yell". I guess.
What happens is folks put a large (or even medium) snake around their neck, and the snake has to try and remain stable, with a slow, moderately strong grip. Folks think "no danger there".
But let the snake hit just the right spots, with just a bit of pressure, and 1, 2, 3, zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Out you go.
Just like a BJJ blood choke, you will be out before you even know it. You'll be fine, then for split second you'll think "why is my vision blurry" and then you won't think at all, just sleep. A human could put you to sleep in 6 seconds with a rear choke, it happens very quickly.
Startle the snake as you fall, and it cinches tighter for its own security, and then it is good night forever.
The danger isn't really with the aggressive snake, just the normal snake, around your neck, and their maneuvering to try and stay stable.
A guy in Denver died a few years ago because of this. Put in the media as "strangled to death by his Burm" but in reality he was just hanging out with his snake, got passed out, startled the snake, and was found dead hours later. Snake was killed. Ignorance sucks.
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