Killed by his own python

sorry 'not talking about his trouser snake'

That snake loved him to death

Cute face really. I wonder if his eyes popped out when the snake did his thing?

Babs

Not a way I'd want to go. Would be very slow and painful.

schnerq

Thinning the herd.

These people are nuts. Exotic pets do not belong in your home.

A good pet snake would've eaten their owner

Did the python get a fruit cup, too?

Cute and dumb.

What a waste.

and now for something completely different...

His Python was his main squeeze.

Are we sure this isn't another case of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone terribly wrong?

The real tragedy is that he was 31, and still living in a room in his mom’s house.

Only way I'd have a snake is when it's crafted into a pair of boots. Otherwise they belong in whatever shithole country they came from. :)

Babs Brandon, his mother, wants answers about her son’s death. What questions? Her son was strangled by his pet python. Which part is confusing.

[quote][italic]"When Brandon got [the python]Tiny he could hold it in his hand. “She was his baby. She loved him,” his mother said, adding that if she was in her son’s bedroom with him the snake would strike at her “as if to say ‘leave him alone’.”[/italic]

Snake decided if she couldn't have him, no one would.

[quote]The real tragedy is that he was 31, and still living in a room in his mom’s house.

Probably because he wasted all his money on shit like buying and keeping huge pythons.

Snake people are selfish.

You really think that an 8-ft long snake is happy being kept in a tiny glass cage or plastic storage bin? You really think that's a reasonably satisfactory life for them? Bull-fucking-shit!

Please tell the Dataloungers to rest assured that this big 'ol snake had its skin removed.

People with exotic pets have some sort of grandiose view of themselves. The real world just isn't enough for these cases. They have to be "special".

Then the wild pet they prided themselves on taming rips their head off.

And the reports talk about him as if he was normal. Who keeps a dozen snakes in his bedroom? His mom is clearly bonkers too. If I were a neighbor I'd have reported him as a menace.

R23 Don't forget the 10 tarantulas...

[quote] People with exotic pets have some sort of grandiose view of themselves.

I can't stand pet-proud people with exotic breeds or pets either. They're supposed to be some accessory or what?

So the snakes and spiders didn't have any issues with each other R24 Only with the pet owner?

Selfish creeps. As if the world’reptiles just want to sit around and entertain you in between long bouts of captivity.

I hate that he died but some people are just absolutely clueless in this world.

We're going to have some dingbat here soon saying Tiny the python is trans, and it's all her fault.

Not only was he dumb, but he put his mother and anyone in that house and maybe neighbourhood/building, in danger. Asshole, really.

Snek did a #meetoo motherfucker.

Alas, that intense, intoxicating love when a man and his snake were truly made for each other can also make them feel suffocated.

Wild animals aren't pets. A python preys on big old mammals, it's a giant constrictor snake for crying out loud.

Pythons have become invasive species in the Florida Everglades because of people's foolishness.

Did he go missing for days and somebody finally looked at the python thinking it had suddenly gained a lot of weight?

R33, Snek had everybody convinced she was pregnant and Baby Daddy took off to evade child support.

The python is trans and it's all her fault.

when the snake go up into the man

Snek got caught up in Wilson-Phillips "Hold On" moment while comforting human.

I’ll tell you what happened. I thought to myself if that 31 year old overgrown man-child doesn’t move out soon I’ll fucking kill him. He didn’t, so I did. You won’t believe how sick I was of watching him jerk off to internet porn on his phone.

R38 Or his mom.

The snake’s nickname was Monty

Human started a Lars Von Trier marathon. What was Snek to do?

The mum Babs has taken over his entire menagerie after his death,

She should give the creatures to a zoo or herpetology expert keeper. I am glad that no one killed Tiny, but she needs to go before Tiny squeezes Babs to death as well.

[quote]R42 I am glad that no one killed Tiny, but she needs to go before Tiny squeezes Babs to death as well.

The bitches planned it together, probably for insurance money.

Dark Lesbians...

The python was not being aggressive it was being affectionate.

That's a relief.

Shit happens. The article goes out of its way to point out how responsible and caring he was and that his pets loved him and apparently they were kept in more than decent or acceptable conditions.

..at least he wasn't hoisted by his own python

The guy was cute! Sad!

Eh. He was covered in tattoos, anyway.

One down.

[quote]Dan Brandon kept 10 snakes and 12 tarantulas in his bedroom

Dan and his mom could've made a great Febreze commercial.

Kill all snakes.

Try the little strip-ed ones, Moms!

[quote] I can't stand pet-proud people with exotic breeds or pets either. They're supposed to be some accessory or what?

I feel that way about people with dogs. So it's all relative.

No, R53. It is not all relative. You are wrong.

Dogs naturally form bonded relationships with humans. Their lives have long depended on it.

Snakes don't.

A guy in my town had a Boa as a pet for years and carried it on his shoulders. One day it slipted down and instantly began constricting the guy. His arms were held down to his sides and he gasped for help. He was about to pass out and his wife ran in and cut the snakes's head off. Yuck.

If the mother hasn't come in and found her son, the boa would have swallowed him.

when the head is lobbed off, does the snake body lose its tension, dying quickly? Such info may come in handy one day.... Thanks.

Terrible things happen to people who do stupid things.

Did the snake wrap around his neck or around his chest? This is unclear to me,

Shit happens.

Especially when you keep a python as a pet.

R56 Which would have made the story so much more delicious.

On his iPod was Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ by Journey

trust in me

Every breath you take was on there r62

R6 WIN!!!

I’m still laughing, thanks.

Crazy. why would anyone keep wild animals as pets?

OMG, one of the best things about the Bible was the repeated warnings about snakes. Don't fuck with them crazy reptiles they have no sense of love, just survival. Get a dog.

[quote]when the head is lobbed off, does the snake body lose its tension, dying quickly? Such info may come in handy one day.... Thanks.

I think it loses most of its tension, perhaps not all of it, but enough to make it possible to finally unwrap the damn thing!

My anaconda don’t want none unless u got buns, hon

[quote]The article goes out of its way to point out how responsible and caring he was and that his pets loved him

If the snake loved him then why did it kill him? Is the snake remorseful, knows what he had done? Does he wonder where his owner is now?

'Prof John Cooper, a vet and snake keeper, said he had visited Brandon’s bedroom and examined Tiny. He said he had been impressed by the conditions Brandon kept his snakes in. “He was an experienced herpetologist who cared for his reptiles and would have had a good relationship with his animals. He did not have them for macho reasons.”

Which of course is like having a good relationship with a shark. Everybody in this article sounds like a complete loon.

I don’t understand people who keep these snakes that grow to be enormous. It’s insane. I used to know a guy who kept a giant centipede (not giant like the python in this story, but giant in that it was almost a foot long), this nasty looking creature ate live mice. It was horrible. It stung or bit this guy once and not only did he still have a scar several years later, he said it was the most painful experience of his life.

So the centipede didn't love his owner? Even after he fed him mice?

Analogy -

A frog meets a scorpion perched on the shore of a pond. The scorpion can't swim; but the frog can. The scorpion asks the frog to help it across the pond, perched atop the frog's back. Mr. Frog says, "If I do this, what's to stop you from stinging me?" Mr. Scorpion says, "Mr. Frog, I promise you I shall not sting you; you're helping across the pond." Mr. Frog accepts.

The two then jump into the pond to paddle across it to their destiny. Upon reaching the other side, the scorpion stings the frog. Moments before dying, Mr. Frog says to Mr. Scorpion, "You gave me your word you wouldn't harm me." Mr. Scorpion responds, "I couldn't help it; it's my nature."

Interesting, R74, I've only ever heard the version where the scorpion stings the frog halfway across the river, so they both die.

Well in this case r75, only the 31yr old mamas boy frog died.

[Quote]Did the python get a fruit cup, too?

I adore you, r10.

As mentioned already, some animals are not meant to be pets, exotic animals especially. Nor should you be able to buy them from a pet store!