reality tv reaches some new level of something

[arely staircase]

a filmmaker and naturalist, built a custom snake-proof suit so he could be devoured by an anaconda for a Discovery Channel television special. A YouTube promo for the Dec. 7 special — titled, predictably, "Eaten Alive" — shows Rosolie stalking an anaconda, otherwise minding its own business, before it presumably attacks


http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/Man-to-be-eaten-by-anaconda-during-Discovery-5876391.php

[Mnemosyne]

2. I just watched Idiocracy again. I am finding it really may be a documentary.

[arely staircase]

9. yes

This is almost like a scene from the director's cut.

[Auggie]

3. File this under animal abuse ... and fuck the Discovery Channel for airing it

[woo me with science]

5. +100000 A revoltingly cruel killing of the snake for sensationalism and rating$$$$.

There is no scientific merit to this. There is no educational merit to this.

This is your "educational TV" in corporate neoAmerica.

[ZombieHorde]

4. Well that's a new fetish.

Seems like an asshole thing to do to a snake, but it's creative.

[bemildred]

6. "See what it is like to be excreted!!! nt

[Rex]

7. That's fucking horrible, I won't say what I think should happen

Reality TV will bring about Idiocracy at some point in time.

College students don't know who won the Revolutionary War...but the know all about Jersey Shore.

[Drale]

8. I kind of hope his "snake proof" suit isn't snake proof like he thinks it is

and he gets digested. I know I'm a terrible person.

[Odin2005]

10. What a fucking dumb-ass.

[arely staircase]

11. no better way to say in nt

[seabeyond]

12. missed not seeing you around.

[Odin2005]

13. Hiya!

[VScott]

14. They're doing it wrong

Should have at least given the snake better odds by suiting up a midget for the challenge.

[hatrack]

15. In case anyone's forgotten: "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo" was on The Learning Channel

That's right, "The Learning Channel".

[arely staircase]

17. +1 nt

[petronius]

16. I'm guessing there's a substantial dose of BS here - he maybe ends up

getting gummed a bit before the snake realizes it isn't food, but I doubt there was ever any intention or expectation of getting him completely inside the snake. Just a bunch a bunch of jackassy nonsense to get people noticing and talki... ... oops.