News Forum - 2-metre long snake coiled around dead body of Burmese man in central Thailand

[Thaiger]

In a harrowing incident in the community of Wat Samrong Nua, Samut Prakan, a rescue team had a challenging mission to retrieve the body of a 26 year old Burmese man, that involved a 2-metre long snake. The Burmese man had taken his life in the bathroom of a worker’s dormitory at an old safe … …

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[Karolyn]

Why would a snake wrap around him, since you can't constrict a dead body, or indeed, be able to wrap around the dead weight of an adukt human body body, already lying on the ground?

[Smiler]

The snake was only 2 meters so eating the body wouldn’t have been possible but snakes will eat recently dead carrion and sometimes will constrict already deceased prey more out of instinct than anything else, maybe it was just hungry and fancied its chances of a free meal?