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Snake for dinner?
I was very moved when
I watched the video of
the two little children,
obviously from some
remote
third
world
country, farming snakes.
The little boy was about
eight and his sister about
11 years old. He had
placed the lower part
of his little body down
into the snake’s hole
as a bait for the snake to wrap
itself around. His upper body
from chest up was left out. After
the snake wrapped itself around
him, he used his exposed arms
to pull himself up, with the help
of his sister. He is now on the
ground untangling himself from
a massive, over 15 feet, snake.
With his sister’s help he is finally
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untangled so he gathers up the
live snake and they move on to
their next catch. The snakes in
this region were obviously not
venomous.
This time the sister sprang into
action. A smaller opening was
an indication that this snake was
not as big so she went to work
with a hoe digging further along
where she estimated the hole
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tunnelled. Soon she
exposed an opening
further along the tunnel
and the side of another
snake
inside.
Her
brother rest the large
seemingly
stunned
snake down and they
both took hold on to
this other snake and
pulled it out the hole.
This one looked just
over 10 feet and was
small enough to hold in a large
mesh sack she carried. They
retrieved another one of similar
size in a similar way within the
same location while keeping an
eye, sometimes a hand or a foot,
on the one that was too large
to hold in the sack. The video
ended with the two smaller
snakes writhing in the sack that