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Anyone see this on CNN??
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well... even though its not certain the snake took him out thats why ya don't do anything with 10 foot constrictors without a extra person there. ya never know what could happen. i mean hell my burm is only a lil over 7 but i still wont handle, change cage etc. without atleast one other person in the house or room.

Hubby and I are the same way with our red tails, even though our largest one is only 6 1/2 feet long. Yeah, they probably aren't going to hurt us, but we'd rather be safe than sorry. This was also on Comcast yesterday and it said the guy had 10 - 12 years experience with reptiles!

The headline made me think they found him with the snake's "shed" skin. Confused me at first. I just bought a baby female het albino retic. I've always loved retics and wanted to own one again. They're incredibly impressive pythons. There's a pic on Fauna of one found on a street in Asia just getting done swallowing a pregnant ewe. (That's a big sheep to be swallowed). They probably killed the snake after the pic was taken.

Just what we need...another death by snake.

Watch it turn out he died of a heart attack or something completely NOT snake related.
I bet they wouldn't print an article about how the snake had nothing to do with it.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

and the cause of death was ruled to being that several of his organs were crushed. I live in Indiana and I talked my mother into moving in with me. She of course had a problem with my one tiny corn snake lol and this story well it's not helped me live an easy week. I've had to extensively explain to my mother how this happened and how it could happen with larger breeds and then I had to explain to her that my snake wont ever get to be that size on and on. This was an unfortunate accident where he just got careless and unfortunately he paid the price with his life. Hopefully it'll be a lesson on safety for all those larger breed owners that seem to think it's ok to let their snakes roam the house. I have met several people who allow their large burms or boas just sleep in the corner of their bedroom as if they were a puppy. It flips me out when people do that and think it's just ok. These are still wild animals with all the same instincts they had years ago before we put em in our glass enclosures and displayed them proudly in our living rooms or whatever. Still have the instincts that when hungry they will eat, some snakes don't even have to be hungry, most snakes will take what prey they can get when the oppertunity presents itself. Anyway, just thought I'd clear it up that it was in fact the snake that killed this man and not a heart attack. It was a sad mistake but a huge set back for herp owners in Indiana, we're having to defend our pets pretty fiercly right now.

ohh nooo lookout!...it's a killer cornsnake!
I've had a few defecate on me,does that count?

Thanks for the followup,and good luck in educating the locals.

Although i don't have a want to keep any of the larger snakes.It's a shame such a case of darwinism had to take place.It will definitely make it difficult to maintain our freedoms.
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Charles

lol yeah he's such a killer. My family is slowly starting to come around, although my mother never ever will. My brother was terrified of Frosty at first, now he's getting used to the idea of seeing his sister, and his kids hold the "beast". lol anyway, thanks for the luck, I'll need every ounce of luck I can get to get my aunts and my mother off my back. I've even bought books about corns to educate them with and shown them adult corns that are years older than mine and well you know the length I'm sure. It's funny to watch them get all squimish just looking at his tank, much less seeing him out of his hide. Anyway, have a good one.

Is like comparing a pit bull to a toy poodle. Tell your mom that.
I just don't get it. If they met a person with no arms and legs they would feel sorry for them but just because it is a reptile with no limbs and everyone runs screaming. We should decide we don't want them to be called snakes anymore. We prefer they be called "limbless" or "the limbless and vertically challenged"