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The article should be retitled “Burmese python” (lowercase ''p''), to agree with standard rules of capitalization, namely that common names of individual species (or subspecies) are not capitalized.--[[User:Solomonfromfinland|Solomonfromfinland]] ([[User talk:Solomonfromfinland|talk]]) 10:41, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
== Random press reports of pythons killing adults. ==
In 2008, a 29-year old Caracas zookeeper attacked and crushed to death by python:
:"The other employees of the Caracas zoo had to beat the serpent to make it release the body of 29-year-old Erick Arrieta, whose head it was swallowing. ...
:A snake bite on his arm indicated the python had attacked Arrieta before wrapping itself around him and crushing him to death.
In 1996 a 19-year old man killed in New York:
:"A 13-foot 20 kg Burmese python killed a 19-year-old man in The Bronx, New York in 1996. A neighbour found him in a hallway outside his apartment with the snake wrapped around him.
In 1992, a 28-year old man killed in Ontario:
:"An unidentified pet python “strangled” a 28 year old man in Brampton, Ontario in 1992.
In 1993, a 15-year-old Colorado teen male attacked in his bed with a bite on his right foot and suffocated:
:"An 11-foot pet Burmese python by the name of Sally killed a 15-year-old boy in his bed in Commerce City, Colorado in 1993. The snake bit the boy on the right foot and apparently suffocated him.
Reported by The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2622427/Python-kills-careless-student-zookeeper-in-Caracas.html
[[User:Ocdnctx|Ocdnctx]] ([[User talk:Ocdnctx|talk]]) 18:04, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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