"accident" here in the Baltimore-Washington area about 2 years ago. Family went out somewhere and came home to find the Boa had got a small child.
And then there was the really dumb S--- Who was into poisonous snakes. That was about 5-6 years ago. He had a cobra and apparently the cobra was shedding it's skin, which snakes do once a year, and was having trouble doing it. So snake happy decides to open the cage and help the snake, forgetting that snakes apparently get ill tempered when shedding. You guessed it! The cobra bit him, and anti-venom for cobra bite isn't exactly high on the supply priorities for U.S. Hospitals. He croaked! I don't know if they ever figured out where he got the snake. I would say he qualified for a Darwin medal, myself.
Mike Bishop (Login MQM107) HyperScale Forums 98.170.245.232
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July 2 2009, 4:41 PM
looking around in never seems to work out that way. I saw this in New Orleans a couple of years ago in a food specialty store. They hot sauces in bowls to taste, two parents paying no attention to their son's who being a PITA, one picked up a cracker and took a big swipe in a bowl and ate it all. He then commenced to screaming, hollering, running all around, and into people till one parent could get him to a water fountain. His dad them asked him what he had done, and the boy said "ate some of this", to which his dad took a chip, swiped it through the sauce, popped it in his mouth, and then commenced to repeat his son's earlier actions. Now I know the boy knew no better, but certainly his dad should have been able to see he was eating almost pure Habenero, at about 1 million scoville points. I said to my wife "yep they don't fall far from the tree".
Notice the word "Albino"? For some reason, among reptile lovers, color (or colour) variations are a "status symbol". Never mind your 24 inch dubs, or your little alligator sewn on to your shirt, never mind the boat of the rv in the driveway, cuz "Ah gots me an Al-by-no Pah-thon!
As we have discussed before, a 9 foot snake in an aquarium is not a pet. It's a captive animal, which, as this one did, got loose (go figure!).
This tool's "status symbol" got loose and done kilt his girlfriend's baby. I say find the baby's daddy, and let HIM mete out the punishment.
What a frikken waste......
A good friend will be there to bail you out of jail in the morning. A great friend will be sitting next to you, asking "how did we get caught?"
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