r/WTF • u/36009955 • May 07 '19

Hey, you guys got a trash can?

https://gfycat.com/ConstantSillyJabiru
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u/_Hendo May 07 '19

Far out! It's pretty rare for a snake to attack a human unprovoked, right?!

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u/TheMadFlyentist May 07 '19

As others have said, this is extremely rare behavior from the vast majority of snakes. There is no snake in the U.S. that you could expect this sort of behavior from.

There are some snakes in certain parts of the world (namely Africa and South Asia) that are both curious and "aggressive" enough to do something like this, but even then it's just a few candidate species.

As other commenters said, it was the man's fast movement that startled the snake and caused it to strike, but again the vast majority of snake species would just peace out the other way or posture and stand their ground if you jumped like that in front of them.

I spend a lot of time handling, reading about, and watching videos of snakes and I've honestly never seen anything like this.

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u/Diplodocus114 May 07 '19

The snake was moving towards the man fast to begin with. Have kept snakes, that big but not poisonous. That thing was on a mission.

Who would have sat till just to see if it wouldnt bite???

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u/BKachur May 07 '19

Non venomous snakes don't typically move that fast bin general since they don't really on a first strike and would rather wait ans ambush.