This is a long story so I apologize in advance. I was in college and had quite a few reptiles, even a Senegal Chameleon. I had built a custom cage for all of my animals I think I had around 25. I was enamored with snakes. I am not sure why, I just thought the were fascinating. Anyway I would not keep venomous snakes because I was too scared of getting bitten, but constrictors were no problem. What could possibly go wrong? So I raised up from a baby a reticulated Python. he was around 3 feet long when I got him and after about 3 years he had grown to around 14 feet. He was a pretty docile snake so I really did not think anything could go wrong. One day I was feeding him. I fed him frozen and thawed bunnies. He would eat 2 or three of them once a month. I had just fed him and I noticed that he had pooped in his water bowl. he did this quite frequently, so again there really was nothing out of the ordinary. What I did wrong, and I know it was my own stupidity but, I did not wash my hands after handling the bunnies. I reached into the cage to clean his water bowl and that was when it happened. He smelled them on my hands and saw the movement and he went for it. He bit my hand and got 2 coils around my arm just at the elbow. I yelled up to my buddies that I was living with at the time and they came running down the stairs to see me struggling on the floor trying to keep any more coils from getting around me. The snake started squeezing my arm and had it wrapped such that he was hyper extending my elbow. I could hear my joint cracking. The 5 guys that came down to help me were going to use a knife on the snake, but I told them if they could get his mouth open he would let go. It took three of them but they finally pried his mouth off of my hand and the snake immediately loosened his grip on my arm. I ended up in the hospital with torn ligaments and stretched tendons in my elbow. It was after that incident that I decided that anything that can kill me is not to be kept by a human. So that is the long winded story.
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