‘I Did What?’ Intoxicated Man Arrested for Biting Python
- Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:34pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A snake bite in a north Sacramento neighborhood left the victim seriously hurt, but the injured party isn‘t whom you’d expect.
Police say a python underwent emergency surgery after a man allegedly bit the creature twice.
Officers were called to Del Paso Heights around 6:30 p.m. Thursday after a passer-by reported that a man was lying on the ground and may have been assaulted, according to Sgt. Andrew Pettit. When they arrived, they found David Senk, 54, still lying there — but police say he wasn’t the one who was assaulted.
Another man approached officers and accused Senk of taking two bites out of his 3-foot pet python, Pettit said.
Senk was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully maiming or mutilating a reptile and booked on $10,000 bail.
In a jailhouse interview with KXTL-TV on Friday, Senk said he had no memory of the incident and that he has a drinking problem.
“I did what?” Senk said. “If you find the owner, tell him I’m real sorry. … I’m willing to help pay for medical expenses.”
The snake was turned over to the city’s Animal Care Services, where it was recovering Friday after losing several ribs. The female python, about a couple years old, had extensive bite injuries, said Gina Knepp, acting animal care services manager.
“You could see the poor snake’s liver, all the way down the side,” Knepp said.
A woman who claimed to be the snake’s owner told ABC 10 that when she witnessed Senk taking a bite out of her pet she lost it.
“I beat the crap out of him, stomped him out and everything. I blacked out.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (57)
WhoIsTheCoon
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:31pm13th is cool like Glenn Beck. Do not argue with him he’s the coolest! If it was a Jew he would be STAND WITH ISRAEL lol. Minds of our own, we got em from God while you can agree with someone trying to play up to them is just be pathetic. Isn’t that right 13th.
I think it is a solid point a white guy beating down a black same situation=jail time for the white dude and a hell we’re sorry need some money from the state to the black.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:20pmGAH….I really don’t want to feed you….but…..
i have to point out, there were other special interest issues involved in my comment, funny that you only picked up on the race one….
You could have called me an : woman hating, animal killing, racist moron
Who can’t get race off their mind?!?!?! Racist….
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:19pmDid a lot of crazy things in my youth when I had Jack D over but don’t think I ever bit a snake ……….maybe I just don’t remember either.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:53amIt said snake, not skank ; )
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 2:01amIt’s ok. She probably doesn’t remember either.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:14pmyeah you got me……lol
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:05pmBetter watch out for rubber snake traps on the hwy. The State can be tricky.
Report Post »rox
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:01pmWhere did this snake come from? Was it walking home from the store or what?
Report Post »Brown Wolf
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:30pmMaybe it was trying to hitch a ride?
or
Maybe it tried to pick him up?, could have been a ****** snake?
You know sometimes these articles get really really weird??
bw
Report Post »FuturePresident
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:18amShe said she carries the snake around in her backpack every day
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:51amNah. Late shift at the snake n shake.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:00pmOr you‘re just a rascist moron who can’t think
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:54pmSometimes the bizarreness is comment challenging.
Report Post »This qualifies.
searching for the Truth
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:49pmLaws against the Bible already coming to force.
timej31
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:47pma chick kicked his ass hahahah
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:46pmThis is kinda like creepy.
Report Post »preppymom
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:36pmIt is California. They are going to have to prevent future tragedy with a sign requirement for the front of all convenience stores. Ummm….what could the sign be.
Don’t bite snakes
Don’t want to even think about what the picture on the sign will look like. Oh my, ow inappropriate.
http://www.crackingthemalecode.com/
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:47pmI love that! cracking the male code…. too cute.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:34pmyour sister said you gave her crabs
Report Post »dangarh01
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:28pmI bet he voted for Obama.
Report Post »NewLife56
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:25pmSalt Please?
Report Post »sizzler2220
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:21pmAre you telling me that the California police are arresting this man for biting a python? But, the SF police do not arrest men for having public s e x on Folsom St, in San Francisco? No shiiiiiiiit!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:19pmONLY in CALIFORNIA!!! Have your snake and eat it too!!!
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:48amFunny. Let them eat snake.
Report Post »sizzler2220
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:18pmCalifornia is taking an insured snake in for emergency surgery? My Christ, they deserve every illegal alien in the fing world to descend upon them. Are the guys on Folsom Street having s e x on on the street to celebrate? Don’t laugh, it is true!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:07pmI just bit a cow – repeatedly!!
Still, none of Texas’ finest have shown up at my door!
I also bit a tomato, some lettuce, and some deep fried potatoes.
YUMM ! ! !
Not so sure I would have enjoyed python so much, though.
But cow???
TASTY ! ! !
( H/T to President and founding father, Thomas Jefferson for bringing us the french fry ! ! ! )
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jb.kibs
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:07pmhaha… the lady beat his a$$… that’s great… he musta been real hungry to want to eat a python…
Report Post »katy
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:00pmWow… and the scary part is these people have a constitutional right to vote…. Oh Wait!! They must have been part of the 52% that sent O to the WH.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:11pmPlus ++++ given 5* treatment to the local DMV, picked up in air conditioned/heated {depended upon the weather in each State} “Freedom” buses, and AND free pizza & pop after you voted. Not the same as juice & cookies after you give blood, but the same concept.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:53pmTime to erase pinkos from our society. What a fine. Screw the snake. It’s really getting to the obscene with these evironmentalist pinkos. Time we eliminate them.
Report Post »preppymom
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:49pmWhen you wake up in jail because you blacked out biting a snake in front of the mini-mart…it is time to seriously sober up.
http://www.crackingthemalecode.com/
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:46pmReally don’t know what to say about this one.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 9:44pmNo Food stamps?
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 2:07amWell, times are tough. I heard that they taste just like chicken and it was only two bites. Plus he just had his clock cleaned by a girl.
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