wafflesatnoon.com » Hoaxes & Rumors » Boy Attacked by Snake as Photographers Watch. Real or Hoax?
Boy Attacked by Snake as Photographers Watch. Real or Hoax?
A photo appears to show a child being attacked by a large snake as a cameraman stands by and films without assisting the victim. Some versions of the photo include the National Geographic. Is this photo real or is it a hoax?
It is merely a dramatization of an attack.
What we are seeing is a still photo from a Discovery Channel series called Nature’s Deadliest from 2008. This particular scene is from episode 4 entitled Africa 2. The scene shows a girl (not a boy as many assume) being attacked by an African Rock Python. Her friend goes to get help. A man wrestles the snake off of the girl, only to be killed in the attack himself.
Again, it is just a dramatization. We have included a couple of screen shots below from the same scene of Nature’s Deadliest.
The Discovery Channel began the show with a warning that scenes might be disturbing.
Here is the photo being circulated. In many cases, there are angry comments about rich vs poor and black vs white. Ironically, the entire dramatization appears to show a middle class white man dying while rescuing the child. The National Geographic logo was superimposed on this image, and in fact has nothing to do with this image or television show.
The next scene of the dramatization shows a man coming to the rescue of the child, as he successfully rescues the snake off of the girl.
Things go horribly wrong for our rescuer as the snake turns its attention to him, and kills the man in the process.
Discovery showed the following warning to begin this show:
It’s easy to see why some would be disturbed by such an image, but in this case it is merely a photo taken out of context. If you see anyone sharing this photo and claiming that it is real, link to this article and set the story straight! And if you have Netflix, the series is on there (as of this writing) available for instant streaming, if you want to see for yourself.
Be sure to follow Wafflesatnoon on Facebook for all of the latest hoaxes, rumors, reviews, and more.
For a list of more hoaxes that we’ve covered, look at our “Hoaxes & Rumors” section.
More Snake Hoaxes:
- Did a Couple Find a Giant Snake Under the Hood of Their Car?
- Is this Golden Snake Real or a Hoax?
- Giant Snake in the Red Sea. Real or Hoax?
- Is the “Penis Snake” Real or a Hoax?
Filed under: Hoaxes & Rumors
No creo que esta serpiente pueda matar a este hombre ,por lo general uno la golpea en la cabeza simplemente se afloja .Lo triste de esta imagen es ver al fotógrafo retratar el momento .
Pues se nota que no leíste ni verga pedazo de ignorante, es una recreación actuada de un ataque, por lo que existe un motivo para que haya cámaras, y el ataque verdadero en que se basó la recreación si resultó mortal, así que como puedes ver putazo, las serpientes como esta SI matan personas, y no hay nada de malo en que lo estén filmando ya que es una puta recreación.
mecagoenmexico es un puto maricon comemierda, ha de ser un sudaca que sus hermanas se fuero de putas a mexico
Ami se me ase que un mexicano se cojio a tu vieja y a tu madre. Lol hahaha. Y luego los sicarios las descuartizaron
Yo también me cago en México, cada vez que voy al baño , pero ahora cago en otro lado, es normal cagar no?.
Deberias de pensar en arreglar tu pais ( cualquiera que sea ) , empezando por mejorar tu educación y ofrecer a los demás ese mismo conocimiento.
That’s a girl not a boy!helloooo!can’t u see she’s wearing skirt?
That’s what we said!
looks like a boy 2 me….wearing shorts
No, I can not see that she is wearing a skirt…
hey yes she is wearing a skirt look in the second pic you will see it there
Uhm, she’s wearing a pink shirt that says angel on it. Just putting that out there.
Here we go again . just evil old whitey aint helpin a sister out , huh ? well fuck you he died savin her dumb ass . and its his dumb asses fault for helpin her now . either witch way its the white guys fault . isn’t it ?!?! I am so sick and tired of the fuckin race card being played all the time . if a black person commits a crime on a white person its “ok” according to the media and the courts but if a white man defends him or herself from the attack of a black person its a hate crime . Now this is getting stupid . the fact is people are people and we all have to live here on this earth with each other . Black , white ,hispanic ,chinese ,catholic , jewish , we are going to have to get over our own obstacles before we can say anything about anybody else
HOLLELUJAH AMEN BROTHA
@Daniel,
You’re the only one pulling the fucking racecard asshole. Take a look at your raging post. Did the white guy die too or was that part of the hoax? do you know? I bet you don’t! You’re talking about blacks pulling the race card when in fact, it’s YOU TRYING TO PLAY THE VICTIM.
“if a black person commits a crime on a white person its “ok” according to the media and the courts but if a white man defends him or herself from the attack of a black person its a hate crime .”
LOLWUT?!! when has that EVER been true? Did your wife cheat on you with a black man? Did a black person beat you up in school? I smell a klansman with a hint of propaganda here.
Beautiful response! Thank You..lmaoooo its never ok when its the black person doing anything wrong! If anything black people get the worst sentencing of anybody! Dan is a damn idiot…White people want EVERYTHING. The minute a rare hint of racism or unfairness blows their way they try to act like the world owes them and that they’re the victims! Smh
Look who’s talking. Any time you generalize negatively about a race you are being racist. Look at what you said “White people want EVERYTHING. The minute a rare hint of racism or unfairness blows their way they try to act like the world owes them and that they’re the victims!” How is that not racist? I have never played victim of race and have never intentionally condemned anyone for their race even when assumption were made about me because I am white. Let me tell you, I have met some brilliant black people and brilliant white people, I have also met some retarded white people and some retarded black people, you definitely fall into the latter category, but then again, so does Dan so you have a point there…
What I am saying is, do you really think discrimination is going to end when your response to this situation is more racism? our ancestors who worked so hard to try to fix these problems would be disgusted.
@D
loving it, lad, loving it.
im white. i got sentenced for a robbery which was a lack of a lawyer in my opinion ive served almost 20 years for this stupid theft under $20.00 dollar crime. i was sentence to prison by a black man! i aint crying saying, ‘its cause im white!’ instead i did my time for my stupid adolescence. grow up America focus on how we can build our country better by teaching our children not to hate but to participate! learn something productive and teach how to pass it on!
@Malik
dude – if daniel is a south african he is not just whistling dixie. we are fairly new to a true democracy, and there’s a lot of racism and ‘reverse racism’ (stupid term. bigotry is bigotry is bigotry) going on over here – people are still dying daily as a result, though it is not nearly as obvious or as prevalent as it was. it would really be nice if we south africans could just move on to actually living the present and planning the future instead of idolising the bad-old-days, and how our pain made us feel like we were somehow special.
@daniel: dude – grow the fuck up, please. you may have a point, but you are not helping matters. so how about taking all of that rage and putting it to some good use – like finding a way past your own bigotry. i promise you that you will be a happier and better person, and people will like you.
@lola: honey, that’s true of EVERY race. to say that white people want everything is equally rascist, and it puts you on the same level as daniel. worse, in fact, because you are kinda sweet in your writing manner, but still you want to feed us this poison? at least daniel was a straight-up asshole. you’re pretending not to be.
I totally agree with you.
Can I get an amen!
You obviously dont know the system well because if you did you wouldnt have said that the system is set up to fuck over blacks in so many ways, if you think its bullshit ill give you one example: crack and cocaine same thing but different prices ones cooked ones not if you get caught with a crack rock which is cheaper than cocaine your minimum sentence is 3 years in jail you get caught with a gram of coke 6 months in jail generally black people cant afford cocaine all the time so some of them smoke crack and white people generally can afford cocaine so before you go pulling that hate crime card out your ass take a look at the whole system and also usually when a black person commits a crime on a white person the penalty is worse than a hate crime
I don’t mean to be completely obvious, but both crack and cocaine are illegal and very destructive drugs. Anyone selling, carrying, and using them are criminals and deserve whatever time is given them. Don’t want to go to jail (whatever race you are), don’t do the crime!
i agree! good for u 4 saying something! if noone says anything then we play cards with a player throwing out the same deuce of spads every time aound!
BTW im commenting on someones comment on Facebook . I thought I needed to wake them up .
exactly, people seem to believe anything they see or hear….
From the comments above I see racism has no color. So, before you got calling the pot black kettle…take a look at yourself. You are just as wrong. People often believe what they see…..it is what it is…but the truth is what people don’t often see often happens and has truth to it. Don’t be mad that the black peoples oppression has shaped a lot of their opinion…truth be told…..history has shaped many folks impression about the black male/woman. What, did you expect us blacks not to be affected by over a hundred years of slavery while people still calling our race nigger…….get over it. Because the reality is racism is still alive and if you don’t like it….do something about it or shut the fuck up. Live and let live. Namaste.
to Phoenix: “Sharped opinion” and BLUNT LIE are different things.
Not only frauds like this spread hate between black and white. Remember the tale about the boy who cried “Wolf!” ? Next time when a real injustice occurs, people may not believe or not pay attention.
Why is this turning to a race story, just take ur race debate somewhere else cos it’s so sickening!
Africa you said what I wanted to say…It is sickening please take race debate out of the picture. Skin color right now isn’t the main focus. A man came to help the child but died after saving her. Where was the other camra man at when he was being eatten alive. Some one had to be taking the last shot when the snake turned on him.
It’s not real, it’s a fucking movie thing…. -______-
can you fuckers read the article without commenting first?
i don’t get it why everyones goin on with racism… this is about a person risking their life to save another person… they’re a hero.. wowww… AMEN!
Kelly….well said!!!
I dont buy this …….>>>> A middle class white man dying while rescuing the child…!!!
So here you intend to tell people that the National Geographic Channel does not have the tools and human caliber to deal with such a situation or it is just a bunch of people looking for the right victim from the slums around Africa???
Shame on you people …
1. It’s Discovery Channel.
2. It’s a reenactment so no kids, snakes or overconfident middle class white men were killed in this film.
Look at the picture where they assume that a white guy was trying to save the little innocent kid from the snake …
The guy falls down with his sun glasses on his face …!!
If you were in this situation will you still be wearing your sun glass and go save someones life ….
( Oh i need my sun glass to see the kid).
Or
Wearing sun glasses will make the person anonymous to people ???
The hell are you babbling about? He’s wearing sunglasses because it’s bright out. Few people think to take off things like glasses when adrenaline kicks in and they rush to someone’s aid. Why are you so stupid?
OMG,PEOPLE. BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT ON THIS, READ THE ARTICLE. IT WAS A MOVIE.(series) NOBODY WAS ATTACED, NOBODY RESCUED ANYONE, NOBODY DIED.
Thank you very much… Some people just become idiotic without reading the article
About racism.. For the first time I saw this photo on a facebook blog, which condemns iterracial marriage, portrays all white people as barbaric pigs, etc. When people commented, that the picture was fake, the admin said, it was “not cool” of them (to say the truth). Quote: “In many cases, there are angry comments about rich vs poor and black vs white” – it’s this way indeed.
Ultimately someone found this photo, photoshoped the National Geographic’s logo and put the picture on internet. What motives do you think they had?
To stir up shit? You put a “Nat Geo” emblem on it, it looks like it’s from National Geographic Magazine (a magazine long before it was a television channel), which makes people immediately assume that three “white guys” just sat there and watched while some kid was attacked by a boa constrictor. Ironically people are too lazy to try and google this like I did, so instead they start throwing trash talk around, because people on the internet have all the social filters of an autistic kid with a rage problem.
So why didn’t anyone (camera crew) try and help the guy helping her when the snake started on him?
As the article states, they were filming a documentary and this was merely a dramatization. There was no real snake attack.
LOL…people are funny!!!
I thought the article said this was a “re-enactment” meaning that it originally happened, but they didn’t have the real people involved (obviously) so used actors instead. Just like they do on some news programs before they ask for viewer help in catching the criminals.
blah blah blah, life is life n shite happens. if pps would give thought befor action/ read the Whole article before giveing thier out of context opinion/ just f***ing use that mushy shite in thier heads to think instead of thier nether regions (thats Both genders, and every race), the world would be so much better off. But humanity being the paracidic selfish infestation that it is, such happy ideals wil never be relised. Honestly…none of us in the least, deserve this beautiful gift of existance we’ve been givin
The word is “Parasitic” not “Paracidic”. People might take you more seriously if you didn’t add to the vitriol already present in the comments and actually ran your comment through a spell checker.
It is pathetic how some Discovery fanboys made fake NGC logo(note the word “National Geographic” is black, which was never seen by any NGC watcher) to defame the channel.
Why would it be “Discovery Fanboys”? It’s not like there’s a massive rivalry between the two groups of people. I watch both channels, whenever either has something good on. It was more likely an internet troll who found this still, wanted to start a racially charged flame ware, and slapped “National Geographic” on there so that the still looks like it was from a magazine (National Geographic was a magazine long before it got into the broadcasting business). This added the legitimacy needed for the hoax to work. If he had stuck “discovery” on there, people may have stumbled across the real documentary and realized this was a hoax. As it was, when I searched for this the fact that there weren’t any news articles about it (a real picture of this happening would have sparked massive controversy and would have been found in articles well outside of National Geographic), just forum posts and of course this site where they clearly outline it as a hoax. You can tell the last picture isn’t real because the man is holding the snake is such a fashion as to keep it from constricting around his neck, as a trained snake handler does.
Its a DRAMATIZATION! read the article instead of viewing just the pics…
where you there or the article you read dropped down from heaven?
I merely watched the full documentary. Is that not enough?
The man should have saved the girl first and the person that snapped the photo too should have helped.
That’s the first comment I agree with, but I’d like to also share my opinion: Fuck National Geographic. : )
It’s a dramatization. It. Didn’t. Really. Happen. Why are you people so goddamned dumb?
LOL. It is a bit odd that people would comment as if it happened, when we went to such lengths to show that it wasn’t real!
a dramatization is different from a re-enactment. one is purely fiction whilst the other is a tool used to show an event that happened that wasn’t caught on film, but can be verified by witnesses. Sort it out Waffles!
You are entirely correct – thank you for pointing this out. We erroneously used the term “re-enactment” once in the article, which has now been changed.
Fake it says “boy attacked then after about first pic it says he saves the girl
It says “boy” because that’s what most people are saying in discussion about it. We then explain that it is a girl in this dramatization.
Ahh come on people the man died saving her life, you lot should be concerned about the family and how they’re coping without him & also the little girl that was involved with this incident, do we really need to put racism in this? Were all humans aint we? What makes whites, blacks, jewish, & the others (no disrespect) any different then each other!
but I do know I don’t comment on these things but you people are f****** retarded the guy falling down with the sunglasses on is because these are still shots from t he recreation of what actually happened to Real people the people in the pictures are not the actual person(s) that died or were attacked.
And the idiot who.said that python coulnt kill.a grown man…eres un pinche menso. Lets throw one on you.and.find.out who is stronger
A boy or a girl you white are just that. sadists. i fail to understand why you are trying to justify what is obviously another Hitler in the making. did the journalist just stumble at the event or staged it?
Watch the documentary and you will understand.
WTF there are 2 camera men but instead of helping that girl together they first try to take some picture. Screw you! Only one person tried to help at girl.
I don’t suppose to read the article, which shows that this was merely a photo taken during the filming of a dramatization?
I swear people are fucking retarded its a reenactment on nat geo. Fuck.read people, go back to school, and nothing about this story is about race. Get over yourselves. Seriously.
very well put
oh… yes!
???? ?? ???? ??? ??????? .??? ?? ??? ?? ???????? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ??????? ?????? ????? ????? ? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ? ??? ??? ??? ????? ???????!
)
TNX
??????
That man is helping that boy and the man got stung by the snake thats y i hate snakes soo much
Regardless of gender, or who jumped in to help. Camera men still should have dropped their cameras and assisted… The girl AND other man who was killed. DUH PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
the first pic is real and the rest is just made up. they just wanna show that they have saved the kid but they failed cuz the 3rd camera man still taking picture.
I thought same……!! and I am totally agrees with you
hahahaha this kindda noob story
)
Your all freaking stupid ,. I’m disgusted by the human race
So is it better, because they filmed a man dying and didn’t help him?? How is that better?? They should have not filmed but helped him and her.. wtf is with some people..
It wasn’t real…It was a dramatization.
99.9% of the people that posted about this photo are missing a ton of brain cells. I don’t even know where to start…
No, no…
People don’t get words like ‘dramatization’ and ‘re-enactment’.
Writer should have used simpler words like ‘not real’ or ‘bluff’ or ‘rubber python in comedy’
Argh, I posted in this thread!
So basically, the moral of the story is: if you see someone getting attacked by a large snake you should not attempt to help them. Got it, thanks.
I don’t think that was the intent of the dramatization, but you do have a point…
This snake isn’t trying to kill anyone anyway. A snake trying to kill somethings bites and coils and try’s to get around the torso. In the first picture you can see that it is the back end of the snake on the child’s leg and the front end is off camera to the viewers left. In the second picture, the guy has the head and he is apparently able to move the coils off of the child’s leg everything is safe and fine. If that snake was attacking there would be no chance of this man just uncoiling the snake, those things are pure muscle. In the third picture, If you look at the mans right hand he still has the head of the snake… He is fine. It’s a dramatization, no one died and everything worked out from what I can see in these pictures.
O degilde herkesin ismi, niye yabanci minakoyim.
Was the rescuer really killed or this was also dramatization?
The entire video is just a dramatization.
VERY BAD IT IS
i hope that kid survived i feel so sorry for him
love bob clam
lol = laugh out loud
omg = oh my god
brb = be right back
gtg = got to go
I think somebody trying to justify them self. It’s doesn’t matter National Geographic is there, they should drop everything and help.
They were filming a dramatization. No attack actually occurred.
hoax or not, u don’t put a 16 foot python on a child