Pet python kills two children

[fun-guy]

I don't understand your hostility. I gave a reasonable explanation to why the snake didn't consume the children. That explanation is the reason why snakes devouring humans is incredibly hard if not impossible. Just do your research. I don't follow how I'm being stubborn.

I'm not hostile, more like frustrated with such stupidity. It's mind boggling that you can't see that an antelope is between 3.25 to 5 ft high, weights between 90 to 150 lbs, and is much taller and wider than 4 or 6 yr old boys. The width of an antelope is much wider than the shoulders of small boys.

Also, you were told that a python swallowed a 10 yr old boy in 2002 and you still insist that a snake can't swallow a much smaller 4 or 6 year old. Your logic is bizarre and your explanation is not reasonable, it's absurd and has now become comical.

 

[BottomsUp]

Something else that seems rather peculiar is that I don't believe there has been any talk of the pet store owner having any kids who might have been friends of the boys. Why would the boys be having a sleepover unless there were kids their age? Maybe the pet store owner is a family friend, and was he in the apartment during the night? If the boys screamed out, was there anyone there to hear them? Whole thing seems very hard to comprehend.

 

[fuji]

Something else that seems rather peculiar is that I don't believe there has been any talk of the pet store owner having any kids who might have been friends of the boys. Why would the boys be having a sleepover unless there were kids their age? Maybe the pet store owner is a family friend, and was he in the apartment during the night? If the boys screamed out, was there anyone there to hear them? Whole thing seems very hard to comprehend.

His own son was sleeping in a different room.

 

[Aardvark154]

Another article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ys-strangled-python-playing-serpent-cage.html

 

[BottomsUp]

Ok, yes I see it that now in the Daily Mail article.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Not the same species but gives you an idea of how good snakes are at climbing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0xk2ajRJE

I'm sure they are but this black snake also used pins or nails protruding from the wall as supports.

 

[fuji]

I'm sure they are but this black snake also used pins or nails protruding from the wall as supports.

Yeah if they find and protrusion they will use it as support, but they can coil up and push themselves a long way up to find a support. A fifteen foot snake can probably go straight up ten feet before it needs to find a support.

In the wild these pythons are tree snakes.

 

[spielburg]

What is most devastating is that they were brothers.

Poor kids. I just don't understand stupidy. Protect your children at all times. People and there pets drive me nuts. There is a old saying someone told me. Where there's smoke, there's fire!
So the kids where sleeping with killer snakes downstairs?

 

[GPIDEAL]

Yeah if they find and protrusion they will use it as support, but they can coil up and push themselves a long way up to find a support. A fifteen foot snake can probably go straight up ten feet before it needs to find a support.

In the wild these pythons are tree snakes.

Yes I'm sure about what you said too, but don't forget that trees are not smooth like aluminum siding or sheet metal. The bark of trees have inundations which provide points of contact, friction and support.

 

[GPIDEAL]

That is why you are being stubborn... or just plain blind...
Ample evidence has been brought forth that indicates that it is NOT incredibly hard and NOT impossible for a snake like this to devour a human, especially a pre-teen child.

A snake can devour an antelope... but cannot crush a rib cage of a child sufficiently to be able to ingest it?? Get real!

Wasn't there a report of a snake swallowing a child in Florida a few years ago?

 

[Imperius]

Another article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ys-strangled-python-playing-serpent-cage.html

This article indicates:

- the boys had visited a farm earlier that day and played with small animals, and were likely covered by their scent
- contrary to earlier reports, the snake's owner did not keep the snake locked in the pet store downstairs, but rather in his own apartment upstairs in a glass enclosure

 

[Aardvark154]

This article indicates:

- the boys had visited a farm earlier that day and played with small animals, and were likely covered by their scent
- contrary to earlier reports, the snake's owner did not keep the snake locked in the pet store downstairs, but rather in his own apartment upstairs in a glass enclosure

Big change that the snake was in the apartment, and that there was and had always been an un-grated ventilation hole in the pen. I understand that the Campbellton RCMP Detachment are now treating this as a criminal investigation.

 

[mandrill]

Big change that the snake was in the apartment, and that there was and had always been an un-grated ventilation hole in the pen. I understand that the Campbellton RCMP Detachment are now treating this as a criminal investigation.

It's starting to look as though Daddy will do a couple of years for "failure to provide necessaries of life" to the two victims. It's normally the charge when Mom and dad leave their cocaine or heroin lying on the coffee table and junior thinks its candy and expires on the living room rug or when Mom and Dad hire the notorious stoner next door to babysit the 3 year old and said stoner falls into a drug-addled daze while junior wanders into the road and gets run over.

 

[Aardvark154]

We do not have that specific charge here Oagre, but I like it. Also the sentence range seems about right.

 

[Naughty Nuru]

I am afraid of snakes though I tell myself it's irrational. I was at a friends ranch for a while recently and stepped on a field snake. My instinctive reaction was to run, scream etc. It was actually kind of big. I can't imagine something this scary actually happening. I would die of fright. Tragic loss for the family!

 

[danmand]

anyone know if a python that eats humans is any tastier when cooked?

that is Moray eels.

 

[fuji]

anyone know if a python that eats humans is any tastier when cooked?

Why not take the snake out of the loop?

 

[danmand]

Why not take the snake out of the loop?

Romans ate moray eels that were fed slaves.

 

[oil&gas]

Snake meat is a delicacy to the Chinese and snake gall bladder is
highly valued in Chinese culture for medicinal purpose. But it is only
the smaller and venomous snakes not python that are used. If python
is ignored by the Chinese you can tell it is nothing appetizing.

 

[Rockslinger]

I am afraid of snakes though I tell myself it's irrational.

I suspect there are a few snake owners on the Board. I made a negative comment about snakes a few years ago and the uproar from some members was brutal.