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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hcarlton" data-source="post: 326227" data-attributes="member: 10329">If you're dumb enough to put yourself in a situation where that could happen, it's probably deserved. Deaths by big snakes occur when either the owner decides to wrap the animal around their neck, the snake feels unbalanced and so tightens up to hold on, and....or, they fail to signal to the snake that it is not feeding time and they are not food (either by having food smell on their hands or by reaching into the cage without warning and startling the snake into a defensive or instinctive hunting strike) and end up a casualty. Either can be avoided and one who knows their animals knows how to read them, when it's safe to work with them and when they're in a mood and best left alone. Worked with wisely, these animals are leagues less dangerous than even that cat or dog probably laying in your living room.Technically speaking, even a corn snake is large and strong enough to kill someone via constriction, but they are neither big enough to see us as food nor large enough to accidentally squeeze tightly enough to kill. The stigma of "it's a big snake, it can kill you!" is a hugely detrimental viewpoint to both those of us who wish to and have the means to successfully keep them as well as all conservation attempts surrounding them and other similarly stigmatized animals; every creature may have the means to kill, they just do so differently.</blockquote>