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[–] 22 points 1 week ago (10 children)

No idea about tensile strength but... Honestly, I would expect that is not the main issue. Why would a snake be less strong than your arm? You can strangle somebody with your arm.

How thick was the snake anyway?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    I’d say about a 50 cent peice in thickness. The snake had been run over on the road before and I figure that’s gotta jeopardize the structural integrity.

    As to why the snake it was halfway explained. The guy had run over the snake then the killer guy picked it up and tracked him down. Then strangled him with the snake. It was never really explained if the murder had a fondness for snakes or something and was mad it got run over? I feel like that’s what they were going for but it was not clear at all.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Fresh roadkill would probably hold, but if the snake had been dead for more than a few days, it would have been a much different scene involving burst intestines

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    You can strangle somebody with your arm.

    But can you strangle someone with a dead arm? It sounds very different than using a live arm. Without any muscle activation I think you'd be putting a lot more stress on weak points in the snake's body and it might just tear apart. But I have no first-hand experience strangling people with live or dead arms (or snakes), so I'm just playing armchair murderer here.

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