Officer Uses Taser To Subdue Python (Snake was eating man's hand)

UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man's arm and would not let go.

Steve Crilly, 47, was feeding a rat to the 8-foot-long albino Burmese python, which belongs to his daughter, when it when it bit his left hand and wrapped tightly around his left arm Wednesday night, Uniontown patrolman Ray Miller said.

"The snake was on his arm and was eating his hand," Miller told the Herald-Standard of Uniontown for Friday's editions. Crilly "was very calm, considering there was a good bit of blood," he said.

In an effort to free the man without permanently harming the snake, Miller said he shot the animal with his Taser, a gun that sends an electric shock through wired darts. The snake immediately went limp and released its grip.

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Python is a rather easy programming language.

If it was Perl, on the other hand, I would sympathize.

Maybe he should have just scrubbed it off with AJAX?

and forgot about it.

Perl is so insanely easy.

That leaves five suspects.

"But I'm getting better!"

http://www.taser.com/law/use/cover.htm

http://www.taser.com/law/use/index.asp

this is also the reason for all the children, mentally ill, elderly etc being tortured by tasers.. the cops and security guards are all competing to get the most medals

I thought the site was a joke (like Onion). I am speechless.eom

I would say it's about time for some "turn about is fair play"!

How can we citizens get these gadgets, and do some "educating" and "receiving medals" of our own?

And losing an arm!

whew!

from that Road Trip movie....

"Unleash the fury, Mitch..."

I would think both of them would have felt the jolt.