Pet python kills two children

[fuji]

Escaped from the pet store and killed two children in an apartment over the store.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/python-kills-two-young-new-brunswick-boys-in-their-sleep-1.1398733

These things are not pets.

 

[shadow_red]

"Pet". Snakes should be killed whenever they're found.

 

[MadonnaLove]

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?426430-Clients-that-have-pets

 

[michael_to29]

Something doesn't make sense here. Pythons hunt to eat. Once they are full, they pretty much keep to themselves. If the python saw the kids as prey, it would have strangled one, then began eating. The fact that it moved onto the next child without eating sounds suspicious to me.

 

[Twister]

Something doesn't make sense here. Pythons hunt to eat. Once they are full, they pretty much keep to themselves. If the python saw the kids as prey, it would have strangled one, then began eating. The fact that it moved onto the next child without eating sounds suspicious to me.

Bingo, I find this suspicious too...

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Captive animals are unpredictable. The creature may have been locked in a glass cage all his life, it may have been acting on on a distorted instinct when he saw the kids.

 

[DukeSSk]

It was probably cornered and felt threatened.

RIP.

 

[Scarey]

Bingo, I find this suspicious too...

I'd like to third that.Snakes kill,consume,kill, consume.They do not kill, uncoil, kill uncoil.Something seems odd about this.I'd bet the Coroner is looking very closely at those strangulation marks for consistency.

 

[Aardvark154]

Tragically another case of a "fatal attraction."

Large constrictors and venomous snakes are not for homes.

 

[5hummer]

Large constrictors and venomous snakes are not for homes.

The idiot who owned the snake should be charged with murder.

 

[CapitalGuy]

The idiot who owned the snake should be charged with murder.

Or fed to a snake.

 

[rex_baner]

Something doesn't make sense here. Pythons hunt to eat. Once they are full, they pretty much keep to themselves. If the python saw the kids as prey, it would have strangled one, then began eating. The fact that it moved onto the next child without eating sounds suspicious to me.

Issue with snakes eating people is that our shoulders make it incredibly hard if not impossible for them to swallow us. Because they always swallow the head first, it cant stretch its mouth wide enough once it goes for the left shoulder or right. In this case, I would assume it didn't learn that from the first kid...

 

[Aardvark154]

The idiot who owned the snake should be charged with murder.

I'd have to look at it in more depth, but there does appear to have been negligence.

 

[Aardvark154]

Understand it was an African Rock Python, they have a reputation for being aggressive.

 

[danmand]

Issue with snakes eating people is that our shoulders make it incredibly hard if not impossible for them to swallow us. Because they always swallow the head first, it cant stretch its mouth wide enough once it goes for the left shoulder or right. In this case, I would assume it didn't learn that from the first kid...

These things can eat an antilope or a cow, a 7 year old child will be no problem. I still cannot understand why a snake would kill one child, and then kill another. That does not make any sense at all. That is not the way snake brains work.

 

[bestman007]

What's going to happen to the snake? Hopefully, it is sent to the local zoo if not transported back to the wild!

 

[harryass]

my guess is some brain dead idiotic pet owner will release it in the wild where it doesn't belong.

 

[thumper18474]

The snake will be destroyed...as per the news reports
they were interviewing some guy that does snake rescues...and even he said he wouldnt want it in his place...and he deals with these on a regular basis....too aggressive

 

[fun-guy]

Issue with snakes eating people is that our shoulders make it incredibly hard if not impossible for them to swallow us. Because they always swallow the head first, it cant stretch its mouth wide enough once it goes for the left shoulder or right. In this case, I would assume it didn't learn that from the first kid...

Oh really, is this your theory? You will change your mind after seeing this video of an African Rock Python swallowing an antelope.

 

[fun-guy]

Something doesn't make sense here. Pythons hunt to eat. Once they are full, they pretty much keep to themselves. If the python saw the kids as prey, it would have strangled one, then began eating. The fact that it moved onto the next child without eating sounds suspicious to me.

Bingo, I find this suspicious too...

I'd like to third that.Snakes kill,consume,kill, consume.They do not kill, uncoil, kill uncoil.Something seems odd about this.I'd bet the Coroner is looking very closely at those strangulation marks for consistency.

I still cannot understand why a snake would kill one child, and then kill another. That does not make any sense at all. That is not the way snake brains work.

Did any of you guys read that the snake killed one child and then the other? I didn't read that in the few articles I scanned. Is it possible that the snake, since it's so long, strangled both boys at the same time? If the snake strangled one boy, wouldn't that boy scream and wake up the other who could have run away?