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makikomi
06-10-2005, 09:36
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978.stm

A burmese python took on an alligator, but the result was a draw - both animals were killed.

Just a word of warning, there is a thumbnail pic on the news article. It isn't gory - no blood at all, but those of a more sensitive disposition may not want to look at it. However, the fact that the BBC has featured it is an indicator that it isn't a nasty pic.

However, the pic-free version is here: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978.stm
ScaredWebWarrior
06-10-2005, 09:41
Just a word of warning, there is a thumbnail pic on the news article.
The warning should read "You may have trouble making out what it is!"

I had to look a few times, carefully to realise that the ONLY part of the alligator still showing is the tail! (in the lower r/h part of the image.) The snake almost managed it!
marky
06-10-2005, 09:43
Is that why my mum used to say "Your eyes are bigger than your belly" :disturbd:
Salu
06-10-2005, 10:40
Mine said "You should never bite off more than you can chew"

"I'll have an alligator sandwich and make it snappy...."

(This pun post is dedicated to Nugget)
Nugget
06-10-2005, 10:41
Mine said "You should never bite off more than you can chew"

"I'll have an alligator sandwich and make it snappy...."

(This pun post is dedicated to Nugget)

I thank you :D




However, I also curse you for nicking a pun :p:
AndrewJ
06-10-2005, 10:43
Now thats a stomach buster of a meal.

prehistoric style ;)
fireman328
06-10-2005, 11:19
Reminds me of the days I lived in the frozen North (Oldham actually) and we used to go to a restaurant called Smithills near Bolton.
They used to have on the menu a choice called "Full to Bustin" and it was.
AndrewJ
06-10-2005, 11:25
Someone should have told him the supersized was a little heavy on the Ol stomach.
Derek
06-10-2005, 11:33
Somehow I don't think this would work in this case :Yikes:
marky
06-10-2005, 11:37
Reminds me of the days I lived in the frozen North (Oldham actually) and we used to go to a restaurant called Smithills near Bolton.
They used to have on the menu a choice called "Full to Bustin" and it was. Smithills coaching house, and its not changed :tu:
BBKing
06-10-2005, 12:05
Blimey - that'll take more than a couple of Rennie to fix.
Ramrod
06-10-2005, 12:12
That pic is in todays Times.......I suspect the python didn't burst--I think the alligator probably used it's back legs to claw a hole in the pythons side.....from the inside! :disturbd:
Jules
06-10-2005, 12:59
That is amazing!
Graham M
06-10-2005, 13:12
Wow that IS amazing, kinda made me feel sick looking at the photo and im not sure why, possibly because I havent had anything to eat yet? lol
Maurice
06-10-2005, 14:40
What the hell was a 13foot Burmese python doing on the loose in Florida anyway? I have heard stories, whether they were true or not I can't say, of people flushing snakes down the loo etc but a bloody great python?

Phew!
Salu
06-10-2005, 16:05
Alligator f*rts are evidently silent but deadly.... :rofl:
clarie
06-10-2005, 16:19
I am finding it hard to get my head round that picture. And why was the snake's head missing?
Salu
06-10-2005, 16:31
I am finding it hard to get my head round that picture. And why was the snake's head missing?

Not half as difficult as the snake though...