Starve a boa, however, and it can get ornery. Mean enough to take on a full grown human, even. The snake in question hadn’t been given anything to eat for two months. Hubby had "forgotten" to feed it while his wife was on vacation. He’d also gotten his wife to take out a rather large insurance policy before she went away. And he’d done a bad job of faking remorse when his wife was squeezed to death by her favorite pet.