Python eats woman in Richards Bay hoax
A message going viral on social media claims that a giant snake swallowed a woman near Mondi.
DEPENDING on which version of the story you read, the overstuffed python swallowed a drunk man in India, an unknown woman in Richards Bay, a man in Qujing, China, a person of unknown gender in Indonesia, or a four-year-old child in Malaysia.
All of the above can’t be simultaneously true, obviously. The message includes a photograph of a large python and claims that the picture was taken by Linda Laina Nyatoro, a South African reporter who witnessed the incident.
Hoax Slayer, a site that aims to debunk email hoaxes and expose internet scams reported the claims in the message were untrue.
The very same picture has been circulating in other contexts since at least September, 2012. Linda Laina Nyatoro did post the image on her Facebook page in June 2013, but states in comments that she did not witness the attack as claimed in the message.
Earlier versions claim that the snake in the picture swallowed a drunk man asleep by a roadway, in Indonesia after floods hit the region.
None of these variants to the story have been confirmed by any credible news reports.
While large snakes such as rock pythons have killed humans, confirmed and documented cases of such snakes actually swallowing adult humans are very rare.
Eish dts really sad…I think we all learnt a lesson dt we shud open our eyes wild everwhr we go since its summer cz dez lot of snakes nw..she may rest in peace shame
All Bull…but possible. But SA no as its a reticulated python thats not from here.
so what did it swallow then ?
Bongani, did you read the article? It said it was a hoax. So no need to RIP poor lady. LOL!
Its may happen that this is not true*thinking*
T z very sad nd ironic dat d snake who swallowed a women z stl alive bt d human body z under ground,ds python must b killed Fodo finish.
Hey guyz, that snake must b killed that ol
Despite da fact dat i luv animals,wat da python did was tragic n shuld b killed.bt if nature conservations disagrees 4 sum reason den da person inside da snake shuld b taken out n da snake kept away where it is of no harm to us.
is there any Pics for this accident? the picture I see is old
Thanks for the alarm but I also agree it”s not true.These quiet giants have proved down through the ages to be calm towards human as they still have got lot of other small food items to take care of. The poster only wants to stir up the crowd for attention.Thank you
I believe a Zululand observer is an interesting newspaper as i would like to see it available in KwaZulu borderline regions such as Volksrusts,PietRetief,Harrismith via Memel wher we cross to another world,leaving our scenic picnic KWAZULU behind.
Read the article before you comment and avoid sounding drunk, lol
Previous reports of gigantic African rock pythons swallowing a goat in this region however are accurate and backed up with very clear photographs: There have also been reports of African rock pythons swallowing newborn infants.
https://citizen.co.za/122675/cnssnakey/
This did happened in limpopo, northam, south africa. Anglo platinum have sent a warning report to all employees today regarding the incident