OT: Eaten Alive by Dragons


Just got to love the grisly description. Note these are komodo dragons, not
the kind married to Toni Tenille.


Bo Raxo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia

[...]

We had walked past a few harmless-looking dragons sunning themselves in the
bush or lurking under the stilts of houses, and were not beyond thinking we
could be friends when we reached a water hole. A large buffalo was lying on
its side, clearly having been brought down by two 6ft dragons and one that
was even larger. The three reptiles were crawling over it, and during the
next 24 hours they proceeded to eat it alive.
The first dragon had grabbed it by its testicles and was starting to chew
its way into the body from below. The second dragon was slowly forcing the
buffalo's head open and was going down its throat. The third was, as they
say, going in the back door. To make an already grisly scene far worse, the
whole slow-motion kill was being conducted in deep mud.

After a few hours all was black - apart from the blood that occasionally
bubbled up from the muddy depths, the white saliva that sometimes oozed from
the buffalo's mouth and the bright, flickering forked tongues of the three
dragons, which were forever darting around. Slippery things slithered slowly
over other slippery things until it was hard to tell whose tail was whose,
where one body started and another stopped and who was doing what to whom.
The smell was fetid, the heat intense.

Every so often the buffalo shuddered and tried to rise. Was it really still
alive? We watched from a few feet away, our guide armed only with a stick,
transfixed and disgusted like us. Our stomachs heaved. The buffalo continued
to twitch.

We left and returned several times; each time the horror was more complete.
The next day, two Americans told us that the three dragons had got deep
inside the buffalo, which was still twitching.




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