Man to feed himself to an Anaconda snake wearing special snake suit

cunnifferous

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/nov/10/discovery-channel-paul-rosolie-eaten-by-snake

Complete vacuous nonsense, but I'll still probably watch it just because it sounds so absurd.

Chunners

Thats animal abuse, he would not get away with that if it wasn't in a 3rd world country. I have a snake and crap like that is what makes people fear them. Like think about it a snake kills it's prey before eating it, now he is going down live so will be moving around in it's body and it's stomach is not designed for that. It would be like us swallowing a live chicken whole and then the chicken wriggling around as it is going down and not only that but also coming out your ass still whole and alive. Snakes normally only **** out a ball of feathers/hair and skeleton (all the rest gets digested) Just imagine how it would feel for the snake to have to **** out a whole human

GLaDOS

Worked with a guy who specialised in studying snakes, he was pretty skeptical of this and worried about the negative affect on the anaconda.

Hold the Cheez Whiz

I can't see how they can do this without killing the snake?

Custardpi

That anaconda don't want none.....

Chunners

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Worked with a guy who specialised in studying snakes, he was pretty skeptical of this and worried about the negative affect on the anaconda.

I can't imagine it having any positive effect for the snake, it's ****ing sick IMO

deco nate

Custardpi wrote: »

That anaconda don't want none.....

Unless you got buns hun...

wexie

I wonder quite how you go about testing a 'snakeproof' suite and who has that job.

ireland.man

Chunners wrote: »

Thats animal abuse, he would not get away with that if it wasn't in a 3rd world country. I have a snake and crap like that is what makes people fear them. Like think about it a snake kills it's prey before eating it, now he is going down live so will be moving around in it's body and it's stomach is not designed for that. It would be like us swallowing a live chicken whole and then the chicken wriggling around as it is going down and not only that but also coming out your ass still whole and alive. Snakes normally only **** out a ball of feathers/hair and skeleton (all the rest gets digested) Just imagine how it would feel for the snake to have to **** out a whole human

I'm guessing he'll come back out the way he went in, through the snake's mouth. If not, that'll certainly be 'entertaining' television!

jimgoose

Why?

KKkitty

Won't the anaconda die if this is allowed? Surely it's the only plausible outcome seeing as it will not physically be able to crush the man.

Custardpi

KKkitty wrote: »

Won't the anaconda die if this is allowed? Surely it's the only plausible outcome seeing as it will not physically be able to crush the man.

While I'm loath to wish harm upon any man, even this idiot, I may smile a little if this turns out not to actually be the case.

wexie

ireland.man wrote: »

I'm guessing he'll come back out the way he went in, through the snake's mouth. If not, that'll certainly be 'entertaining' television!

from watching the video it looks like he has a tether attached to his ankle, presumably to pull him back out?

Highflyer13

What a fecking weirdo. Jaysus, the mind boggles.

Chunners

ireland.man wrote: »

I'm guessing he'll come back out the way he went in, through the snake's mouth. If not, that'll certainly be 'entertaining' television!

He can't without killing the snake, they have no gag reflex, humans (well all large mammals) tongues do most of our gag but snakes digestive system is a one way street, their teeth point inwards, if he tries to go back the way he came it will pull the snakes head apart no matter how big the snake is. Have you never seen pics on the internet where a snake tries to eat something too big for it and they find a snake busted open with a half digested hippo in it? it's because at a point the food is to big but by then the snake can't do anything about it. if it can't digest the food it is dead. No snake no matter how big it is could handle a human passing whole through it's digestive system

KKkitty

Custardpi wrote: »

While I'm loath to wish harm upon any man, even this idiot, I may smile a little if this turns out not to actually be the case.

I don't understand the logic behind this at all. Even if it was happening in my back yard I wouldn't be watching it.

ireland.man

Hopefully all the outrage will force them to rethink airing this abuse.

Macavity.

Oh my gosh, look at her butt.

Summer wind

It's disgusting and totally wrong. What kind of mind could come up with this idea.

Macavity.

Morally questionable, no doubt. Gonna be entertaining though.

Chunners

Summer wind wrote: »

It's disgusting and totally wrong. What kind of mind could come up with this idea.

A human one, we are pretty good at sick **** like this, in fact at times we thrive on it :rolleyes:

Custardpi

Chunners wrote: »

He can't without killing the snake, they have no gag reflex, humans (well all large mammals) tongues do most of our gag but snakes digestive system is a one way street, their teeth point inwards, if he tries to go back the way he came it will pull the snakes head apart no matter how big the snake is. Have you never seen pics on the internet where a snake tries to eat something too big for it and they find a snake busted open with a half digested hippo in it? it's because at a point the food is to big but by then the snake can't do anything about it. if it can't digest the food it is dead. No snake no matter how big it is could handle a human passing whole through it's digestive system

Short news report from India about this phenomenon. Apparently the snake suffered "internal injuries". Hopefully it was able to recover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayg_YG2iy4

anncoates

I always thought human shoulders were too wide for the snake to ingest or is that just a myth?

Areyouwell

cunnifferous wrote: »

Man to feed himself to an Anaconda snake wearing special snake suit

Please tell me it's Enda?

Chunners

Custardpi wrote: »

Short news report from India about this phenomenon. Apparently the snake suffered "internal injuries". Hopefully it was able to recover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayg_YG2iy4

He is going to go in the snakes mouth with a camera on his head and probably a few on his body too. that snake was in pain, how will one the same size cope with that? And the snake didn't "apparently" suffer internal injuries, it did suffer internal injuries. There is a big difference

Custardpi

I meant apparently in the sense of according to the report. Stop looking for offense or picking arguments where none is intended.

Ken.

Time for shark week to step up their game.

Chunners

Custardpi wrote: »

I meant apparently in the sense of according to the report. Stop looking for offense or picking arguments where none is intended.

Sorry then, I thought you were being deliberately obnoxious and dismissive about how it would affect a snake, my mistake

Egginacup

Hopefully the outrage will tip the scales in favour of cancelling this stunt

smash

Chunners wrote: »

He can't without killing the snake, they have no gag reflex, humans (well all large mammals) tongues do most of our gag but snakes digestive system is a one way street

That's not true at all. Snakes will often regurgitate food that slows them down in order to escape predators.

razorblunt

If my childhood has taught me anything, if he slides down a snake he'll require a ladder (or two) to get back up right?

kneemos

Can't think why he'd want to do this apart from the publicity.

Macavity.

I hope the snakes digestive system gets all messed up.

caolfx

Macavity. wrote: »

I hope the snakes digestive system gets all messed up.

Why?

o1s1n

Macavity. wrote: »

I hope the snakes digestive system gets all messed up.

Lovely.

take everything

The Guardian secretly wants to be the Daily Mail judging by its recent stories.

Jaxxy

Has this chap got some sort of vore fetish? Can't imagine why anyone would want to do this otherwise. Certainly it's not for "science", anyway.

Duckworth_Luas

Has the Darwin Award committee been alerted?

Mrs Garth Brooks

This is sick.

Seriously.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Chunners wrote: »

He can't without killing the snake, they have no gag reflex, humans (well all large mammals) tongues do most of our gag but snakes digestive system is a one way street, their teeth point inwards, if he tries to go back the way he came it will pull the snakes head apart no matter how big the snake is. Have you never seen pics on the internet where a snake tries to eat something too big for it and they find a snake busted open with a half digested hippo in it? it's because at a point the food is to big but by then the snake can't do anything about it. if it can't digest the food it is dead. No snake no matter how big it is could handle a human passing whole through it's digestive system

Funny, the snake I had for years would regurgitate it's food.

A snake can and will throw up it's food if it feels threatened. Just putting that out there.

This stunt isn't very intelligent.

armchaircoach

From what i can see of his armour, it seems to consist mainly of upper torso and head\neck protection. There's a good chance that the constriction could result in serious damage to other parts of his body, which would just be a shame!

Also i wonder have they thought about the fact that snakes have very powerful stomach acid designed to eat through bones and horn.

Ficheall

Tony Defeated Label wrote: »

A snake can and will throw up it's food if it feels threatened.
[...]
the snake I had for years would regurgitate it's food.

What were you doing to your snake?

IrishCule

Custardpi wrote: »

Short news report from India about this phenomenon. Apparently the snake suffered "internal injuries". Hopefully it was able to recover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayg_YG2iy4

lol, did that snake actually survive though?

"Taken to a secluded place in the jungle".......sounds alot like the ole taking the dog to the farm.

Reoil

I'm sure the snake can ingest the guy but I wouldn't fancy ****ing him out again...

Custardpi

Update on this. Looks like it didn't really come off. Sounds like an interesting nature doc of sorts in the lead up to the failed main event. Hopefully the snake will be ok.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/08/aten-alive-anaconda-snake-paul-rosolie

seamus

"We stopped it because were worried the snake would break my arm".

Pity it didn't, might have discouraged him from doing something similarly stupid in future.

Timberrrrrrrr

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

I can't see how they can do this without killing the snake?

They dont.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/08/aten-alive-anaconda-snake-paul-rosolie

The first 90 minutes of the two-hour special detailed a truly suspenseful hunt for a suitable snake and the final 30 minutes were dedicated to a snake biting his helmet and then Rosolie calling off the stunt without a second attempt. Rosolie is also nothing more than a lot of dust and a few empty Coke bottles.

The_Captain

To be honest, I don't think they ever intended to go through with it.

Clearly the guy knows more about snakes than everyone in this thread combined, so they were well aware of the potential harm to the snake.

He's also pretty much dedicated his life to the Amazon and conservationism.

It seems to me that the intention all along was just to get roughed up by a snake before calling off the stunt.
They seem to genuinely want to get people's attention to highlight the loss of biodiversity in tropical rainforests rather make a crap reality TV show