“Gun Death” Python Attack

Big snakes, even non venomous ones are dangerous:

A python strangled a security guard near a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Friday, and then escaped into nearby bushes following the deadly attack, police and a hotel employee who witnessed the incident said….He had offered to help capture the snake, which had apparently been spotted several times before near the hotel, located in Bali’s Sanur area, Bawa said.

Mulyo managed to secure the snake’s head and tail and put it on his shoulders, but the python wrapped itself around his body and strangled him, said Bawa, who was present during the attack.

People watching the incident were unable or unwilling to help and called the police, who came but failed to save the man. The python escaped into nearby bushes, and police were still searching for it.

So the snake killed one man, and is still on the loose. This isn’t a “Gun Death”, but can you really say it would have been worse if the guard had instead shot the snake a few times and dealt with it then?

H/T Bob and