Snake with foot found in China
Snake with foot found in China
#1Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 2:37pm
Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night.
"I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound. I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw," said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest China.
Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death before preserving its body in a bottle of alcohol.
The snake � 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger � is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.
Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy."
A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.
Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.
-JG2
#2re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 2:41pm
Ugh, it was just randomly crawling on her bedroom wall?
No sleep for me tonight...
#2re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 2:46pm
It looks more like a hand.
Anyway, isn't this how we evolved? 
#3re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:01pm
I wanna know where she found a bottle of alcohol big enough to put that mofo in!
It wouldn't even fit in a magnum of Dom as far as I can tell...
... and WHY did she put it in a bottle of alcohol in the first place? I'm assuming... to preserve it?
I wouldve DOUSED it with alcohol before throwing a match on it...
Hell, with that thing in my bedroom I'd DRINK the alcohol...
... snakes are the only one of God's creatures I just cannot tolerate. Particularly "monster" variations with claws.
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#4re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:06pmIt looks more like a little snake ate a large lizard that ruptured through it's stomach. You can see the outline of the lizard in the snake's body.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#5re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:12pmI agree with you SCAFU. That's totally what it looks like.
#6re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:17pm
They'll find out when they do the autopsy.
Its amazing the snake didn't try to regurgitate the lizard once it started being beat.
-JG2
#7re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:36pm
There was a similar photo of a python that tried to eat an alligator a while back. The gater got halfway down and burst through the snake's body. Both died.
I would guess the lizard kept fighting all the way down.
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#8re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:36pmtaz, I think it ate a crock o' duck.
#9re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:39pm
That's what I see as well SNAFU
"It looks more like a little snake ate a large lizard that ruptured through it's stomach. You can see the outline of the lizard in the snake's body"
#10re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 4:21pmThis is similar to the rumored DVD exclusive alternate ending to "The Princess and the Frog"
#11re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 4:28pm
What?!?! They changed the ending?
Does Tiana still squash that damn firefly at least?
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#12re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 5:36pmI don't know, but that is nasty.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 6:01pm
I'm more amused by snakes with two heads attacking each other to death 
#14re: Snake with foot found in China
Posted: 10/20/09 at 6:19pmThat's what I wanna see!
-JG2
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