In a courtroom in Sri Lanka recently three snakes emerged from under the judge’s seat, causing lawyers and litigants to run for their lives. The packed courtroom in the town of Chilaw was disrupted when, minutes before the judge was to take his seat, the snakes appeared.

Police rushed to the scene and discovered to their amazement that a family of nineteen snakes lived under an anthill, together with twenty-five eggs.

A twenty-three-year-old man in Gainesville, Florida, was recently feeding his pet python when the fourteen-foot-long (4 m) snake began to wrap itself around his head. He screamed and two friends rushed to his aid.

They found that the pet python was digging its teeth into the man’s forehead and was opening its jaw to take in his entire head.

A fierce struggle ensued before they were able to get the snake to relax its grip. The man now says that when he feeds his pet in the future he will have two persons on hand to make sure that he does not himself become a meal for a hungry python.

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