The dealer is dangerous as he 1. knowingly bilks people out of their hard earned money (and this is a RICH man's hobby...no arguement there, I hope). It's undetectable until someone compolains to someone else, etc...God only knows how much damage can be done until he gets shut down via word-of-mouth only then to re-surface sometime in the future under an assumed name and 2. sells animals with crypto or some other sickness spread via airborne spores which can (not always) infect the rest of said person's collection.

The unscrupulous dealer is also a "snake" in the figurative sense.

Maurice Cullen (Beaver) once told me "Snake people are sometimes snakes, themselves".

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• The most dangerous snake in the world?? - bachman, Sun May 16 02:28:47 2004
• Is simply the one that just envenomated someone! n/p - shaky@best, Sun May 16 13:38:59 2004
• My vote - Chance, Sun May 16 18:18:13 2004
• RE: My vote - lanceheads, Sun May 16 21:20:24 2004
• RE: My vote - lanceheads, Sun May 16 21:23:45 2004
• B. asper - Chance, Mon May 17 02:20:57 2004
• RE: B. asper - WW, Mon May 17 06:16:55 2004
• Does that mean? - oxyuranus, Mon May 17 07:29:46 2004
• RE: Does that mean? - WW, Mon May 17 10:33:35 2004
• RE: Does that mean? - oxyuranus, Mon May 17 13:03:03 2004
• Big Atrox? - Matt Harris, Mon May 17 08:56:30 2004
• RE: Big Atrox? - WW, Mon May 17 10:57:20 2004
• RE: My vote - hudsonturner, Tue May 18 09:47:16 2004
• RE: The most dangerous snake in the world?? - MsTT, Mon May 17 00:25:30 2004
• RE: The most dangerous snake in the world?? - Buzztail1, Mon May 17 01:25:09 2004
• The unscrupulous dealer.... - Chris Jones, Tue May 18 07:42:02 2004
• Unclear on how an unscrupulous dealer selling sick snakes... - psilocybe, Tue May 18 14:19:56 2004
• I'll explain. - Chris Jones, Thu May 20 14:14:43 2004