Deletion of Exploding snake (2nd nomination)

Comment: A 13 foot snake tried to eat a 6 foot gator and died, was then found burst open and missing its head. Cartoonist B. Kliban gave us the rule of thumb: "Never eat anything bigger than your head." "Exploding" is likely an exaggeration of a dead animal decomposing, swelling, then the gasses being released when the rotting flesh loses its integrity, followed by some person or other animal dragging away the head. This hardly merits the term "explosion." This is a one-off weird water-cooler story. Wikipedia is not and should not become a compendium of every freak occurance that got a little news coverage. See the essay Wikipedia:News articles as well as #NEWS
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: or '''merge''' to exploding animal. I see no evidence it is/was or ever attempted to be a meme. This course of action would enlarge our coverage of exploding animals and its perfectly verifiable and documented in multiple sources (thus meeting ). Exactly what other guidelines did you think applied here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: for the simple reason that the last AfD decided that the topic was notable, and |notability is not temporary.  And if you're not going to go for that, then yes, merge it into exploding animals
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NTEMP)