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Darwin Award: Chinese tourist bitten on nose by python she tried to kiss
2016-01-11
[Guardian] A Thai company that runs snake shows has paid $3,200 in damages to a Chinese tourist after she was attacked by one of their pythons when she tried to kiss it.

A video clip posted online shows two men during a show calmly holding the python. A long-haired woman wearing a backpack leans over to kiss it.

The python launches at the woman, grabbing onto her nose and holding tight while she tries to pry it away. Members of the crowd scream.

The local Phuket News named the woman as 29-year-old Jin Jing and said she had been taken to Phuket international hospital where she received treatment. Thai media published a photo they said was of the woman with several stitches in her nose.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Awwww #4, I wanted to say it - guess I'll have to go wid the corollary "DON'T MARRY/DATE THE SNAKES" to be the tourist warning sign.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-01-11 20:07  

#6  Pythons doing what they do. If something looks and smells like food, they react the same way most every time.

Our family used to have a couple in our earlier years. Sometimes they believed that our fingers perhaps were a mouse or some other tasty morsel, with the expected results.

Never was dumb enough to try and kiss one though. They can 'hang on' to anything they catch pretty well.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-01-11 14:14  

#5  Is the Python ok?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-01-11 11:35  

#4  Now they need "Do not kiss the snakes" signs.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-11 10:11  

#3  Wasn't there a Far Side cartoon about the nose biting snake?
Posted by: AlanC   2016-01-11 10:07  

#2  Any noticeable improvement in breathing? Was Atrophic rhinitis a pre-existing condition? Co-pay ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-01-11 09:09  

#1  At least she didn't try to kiss a cobra.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-01-11 04:40  

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