Woman found dead with a python wrapped around her neck in a home with 140 snakes
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Source: CNN
A woman was found dead yesterday with an 8-foot python snake wrapped around her neck, according to Indiana State Police.
The snake was a reticulated python, which is native to southeast Asia and is considered to be the longest snake in the world.
The Benton County Dispatch in Oxford, Indiana, received a 911 call last night after Laura Hurst, 36, was found unresponsive.
Medics arrived and attempted life saving measures on her but were unsuccessful.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/us/snake-python-death-trnd/index.html
Police say there were 140 snakes at the property on 609 North Dan Patch Drive, and that approximately 20 of the snakes belong to Hurst. According to police, Hurst frequented the property "about twice a week." The home is owned by Benton County Sheriff Donald Munson, according to property records. Munson did not return a CNN call for comment Thursday afternoon.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)tonedevil
(3,022 posts)in the late 1960s.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)Oh, this could get interesting, wonder what relationship the sherriff had with the woman.
Also wondering if it's legal to have that many snakes.
doc03
(35,292 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,785 posts)just be thankful that you weren't the animal control people..........140 snakes, and not knowing which ones were poisonous....
ToxMarz
(2,162 posts)or one of his? Interesting to see who gets the blame.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)But nobody is going to speak up, I'm afraid.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)LawnKorn
(1,137 posts)brush
(53,726 posts)JudyM
(29,181 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)I bet there's a good reason for that.
Seriously
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)and solve both problems.
JudyM
(29,181 posts)Canoe52
(2,948 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)soldierant
(6,784 posts)but it's definitely there, and in numbers like that, it would be pretty awful. I suppose people can get used to pretty much anything, though.
DENVERPOPS
(8,785 posts)that isn't the only thing that smells about this..........
In my younger years, I had many of those and an 8 footer usually doesn't have the ability/strength to overpower an adult......
Coventina
(27,049 posts)Something doesn't add up to me....
DENVERPOPS
(8,785 posts)We had a teenager here in Denver that a boa overpowered, but the boa was 14-16'........Someone told me that it is illegal to have a boa over 16' as a pet?????? Having seen a 14'er I can understand why, especially a HUNGRY one that size.......
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Oops.
tblue37
(65,212 posts)PuppyBismark
(594 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Who would have thought?
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)let alone 140 snakes...
I remember seeing videos of a little girl playing with some giant snakes and it creeped me out.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)But they weren't really pets- they came with the apartment.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Karma13612
(4,538 posts)It was renovated and customized for just housing the snakes.
Interesting.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Karma13612
(4,538 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)it was someplace like this
FakeNoose
(32,551 posts)... but that was just a kid's story, not real life.
Yeehah
(4,566 posts)Placing a predatory, very strong mass of murderous muscle around your neck!!!
THEY KNOW YOU WUVS THEM!!!!
Codeine
(25,586 posts)and I really cant imagine a situation where an 8ft retic could kill a grown adult. Something else is going on here.
DENVERPOPS
(8,785 posts)don't you think..........
milestogo
(16,829 posts)maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)That's the name of a horse from "Ya Got Trouble", in the Music Man!
Mystery Solved: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-07-25-0307250165-story.html
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon
Then beer from a bottle!
An' the next thing ya know
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit
And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper
Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy
Settin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)We would never be annoyed by barking, for sure.........
Omaha Steve
(99,486 posts)NOT important news of national interest.