There Is A Bright Side To This

A police officer had to use his Taser in the line of duty. It was the only way to get the python to stop eating a man. The man had been trying to feed a rat to his daughter's pet python, when the reptile decided that the man's left arm looked much tastier.

Steve Crilly, 47, was feeding a rat to the eight-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.

Crilly was treated by paramedics at the scene for what Miller called "a nasty cut" on his hand. The snake was uninjured and remained at the home, Miller said. Crilly did not immediately return a message left at his home Thursday by The Associated Press.

When are people going to listen to us about the Animal Uprising™? People should be converting these "pets" (who are really enemy agents) into something useful. With a python a nice pair of boots comes to mind. But anyway, the good news is that the python hadn't been Taser-proofed yet. Like the cows and the pigs. So there is still time to think about those boots or a nice handbag.