Man bites snake

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Man accused of biting girlfriend's snake BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Northern Ireland man bit his girlfriend's pet snake in half during a fight and remarked that it "tasted lovely," lawyers testified Friday. Shane Cooke, a 33-year-old bricklayer, was arraigned in Belfast High Court on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, Coleen McGleenon, and fatally torturing her royal python Aug. 4. McGleenon's lawyers said he headbutted her twice and picked up her pet, put it in his mouth, and threw its severed head at her. "Your snake tasted lovely," he was quoted as saying. Cooke's lawyer, Adrian Higgins, said his client admitted both offenses and had attacked the snake because he knew his girlfriend loved it. He said Cooke, from the border village of Keady, had been consuming alcoholic drinks for several hours before the attack.

For some reason, the last line doesn't surprise me...

[Balintherlas]

But he's an Irish bricklayer, he'd have to be drinking for several days to become intoxicated.

[Dragonshadow]

I know a girl whose friend bit off the head of her snake during an argument. She kept it in a box. I think in reply, she killed his spider...

I wonder how big this snake was...

[johnny]

Ah, they're using the Mel Gibson the defense....it wasn't me that did it, it was the alcohol.

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally Posted by Dragonshadow I know a girl whose friend bit off the head of her snake during an argument. She kept it in a box. I think in reply, she killed his spider... I wonder how big this snake was...

According to the "Reptile Hosue":
"Royal pythons - known as ball pythons in the USA because of their ability to curl up into a ball when threatened - come from grasslands and forest clearings in west and central Africa, where they spend much of their lives in underground burrows. Active mainly by night, these snakes eat 'jumping mice' (gerbils) in the wild, and can be fussy eaters in captivity.

They are a short, stocky python strongly marked in black and tan, with spots and stripes throughout the body. These snakes measure, on average, around 100 cm in length, although a large female may grow to more than double this size. They have short tails and powerful, muscular bodies which they use - like all pythons and boas - to constrict their prey. They have small, shiny, smooth scales which do not overlap".