Gotta love ...

[Skorpious]

Ignorant 'journalists'. Reading Thats Life ( hey I work night shift at a country town service station, you get so bored you read just about anything) and there is an article from an old lady in the Territory.
Apparently she awoke one night to find a huge 2.5 olive in her lounge room that was 35 cms (!) in diametre. She called the police who called a snake catcher but he was going to be some time so she decided to get her camera and take a picture. The photo of the huge olive was included but all I could see was probably a 4-5 ft Darwin, probably 2-3 inches at its thickest.
Then the best bit, the snake catcher when he arrived told her that a bite from it wouldn't have been fatal but apparently would have still made her sick. Damn them sickness causing olives!

 

[earthmother]

Oh no, those semi mildly non venomous, sickness causing, Darwin Olive Pythons are a worry. 'Specially the skinny ones.
My favourite story is of the two sweet old people who stayed away from their garage for three days because of a RBBS and when the snake catcher came he found some black and red jumper cables. haha.
Poor old things.

 

[instar]

LOL Em, i would have made a show of "catching" and bagging" the deadly jumper cables then charged em! LOL :lol:

 

[moosenoose]

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LOL Em, i would have made a show of "catching" and bagging" the deadly jumper cables then charged em! LOL :lol:

Hehehehe yep! Hook & tailing the jumper cables :lol: I can see it now:

Carefull! Carefull! You don't want to cop a whack from the business end of one of those!! hehehehe Those clamps can really latch on if given an opportunity to!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[marty]

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... olive cross darwin. dam intergrades or hybreds or whatever the hell they are.

 

[farmdog]

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read that article damn silly old bit should have put her glasses on in the first place and what the hell was the snake catchers deal was it ( thou shall not be named ), and to display the Darwin pic and call it an olive its like calling a cow a horse and vica versa

 

[Ginajam01]

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I laughed to myself when an ex-boss told me about the 3.5metre Childrens python that had his whole family bailed up in the shed.

I told him how lucky he was to be alive.

 

[Slateman]

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LOL sometimes people do twist words bit. Mabe the catcher told her that she can get infection if bitten by python.

 

[angua21]

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I have the article here in my hand (my mum gets the mag every week) and noone says its an olive python. She says it was olive COLOURED when she was looking at it in the dim reflected light from her bedroom, and later comments on how pretty its black markings on the shiny olive skin are.
its still a stupid article, especially since in the picture you can quite clearly see no green (or olive) at all and that the 'black' markings are quite reddish brown, but the wording isnt quite as bad as all that She also seems to think a new security door will keep snakes from getting in in the future.....

 

[dobermanmick]

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Wow I would love to let wild darwins roam through my house !

 

[instar]

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It looked more coastal to me *shrug

 

[Skorpious]

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Heh well I didn't have the article with me (thought they said it being an olive python but show a pic of a not so olive darwin) when I wrote it but still 35 cm girth?!
A snake that big probably had to have come through the door, maybe the security door with help :wink: