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If I'm not mistaken this family also has a very large female retic that the small boy played with (I use past tense because these are somewhat old photos). Yeah, I think any pics of tame snakes are cool. I just hope that that family doesn't leave the snake and boy or any child unattended at any amount of time. It would just be asking for possible trouble as many different things can happen. And that's all this hobby needs is another account of a human killed by a snake. One incident every 10 years and it's blown so far out of proportion that it seems like large constrictors are killing people daily. But no one pays attention to the fact that over 600 people a year are killed by taxicabs,.. or 50 a year by horse kicks,.... or 75 by bee stings,... 150 from alergies to peanuts,. all kinds of ridiculous stuff. It's only the shock value stuff that gets media attention and exaggerated to collosal proportions. It's the same with gators. One death every decade or so and they get a TERRIBLE rap. And then legalized extermination, or "culling" ensues, and it just isn't fair to one of the most amazing creatures on the planet. The last living dinosaur-like reptile and they are labeled a pest or pidgeonholed as a threat to humankind and killed.
Sorry for the rant but this biased disinformation really p's me off and I wish it would stop. Thank God there are television programs nowadays like the croc hunter where facts are delved out and it can counter all the myths and ignorant BS of prior generations.

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A lot of trust going on there, don't know if I would let my kid do that, but that is pretty cool.

That's a very hazardous practice, and the people who took this photo should be reported.

The whole Kid and Snake story just happened recently.. it got major news coverage. I cannot find the story offhand, but somewhere or other is a story about it and a video clip.

The family says they cannot seperate the kid and the snake, the kid LOVES the snake and the snake has yet to harm it..

Somewhere over in Asia where burms are native, some little town in the middle of nowhere.
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I couldn't find the video o_O Anyone else know where that is online?

But Yahoo has a story about it -> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030522/od_nm/life_cambodia_python_dc_1
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How is that child abuse? Obviously someone had to be on the other side of the camera right? Probably an adult. Children playing with large snakes under adult supervision happens quite a bit and is a lot less dangerous than even taking your child for a ride in your car. Is taking a child for a ride in your car child abuse as well? No, its not.

If anything that is child endangerment, not child abuse. That being said though there are far more dangerous things that children do everyday with or without adult supervision.....should all of that be considered child endangerment as well? Probably not. Like I said about riding in a car, its more dangerous to that child than laying on the floor with a large snake, is taking a kid for a ride in a car child endangerment?

A child playing with a snake under adult supervision is in no way or form child abuse or endangerment, and even more so the people who took those pics should not be reported to anyone. Its people like you who make things harder for all of us who really do nothing wrong. Do you realize that? Reporting them for those pictures would be like someone reporting you for having a large snake and saying that you use it to frighten people when you don't do that. Would you like that? Get a grip man, something tells me you are one of those people who work for child services thats 22 years old, never had or raised a child, and tries to tell others how to take care of their children.

Use your head. If nothing else at least label things a little better. If someone hates people with mohawks do you say 'that person is racist against people with mohawks' too?

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I'm sorry but what the hell does that have to do with anything? It seems a waste of time to argue with someone whose brain functioning is impaired enough to post such non-sequiturs.

OK, so it's child endangerment. Big f'ing deal.

Seems to me like your brain is the only one that isn't functioning. If you can't grasp the simple concept of your side of the argument then that means your brain isn't functioning. Duh. And it has to do with everything that said...you said it was child abuse and it's people like you that make our hobby so scrutinized, and you seem to think it's a big deal or you wouldn't have labeled that child abuse...i mean that is a serious thing.

>>>> Its people like you who make things harder for all of us who really do nothing wrong.

And, moron, it's people like this who act irresponsibly who make things harder for people who do nothing wrong.

It's best to simply ignore this person. They repeatedly get banned and then come back on under a different screen name and look for threads they can start trouble in and create arguments. Though like most everyone else here I welcome differing opinions, but I don't respect pointless inflamatory naysaying and name calling. While I agree with you completely that a ride in a car is probably more dangerous than this, I also would probably not allow my child to cuddle up with such a large python if it were such a small child. Maybe a much older, and thus larger child, MAYBE, and then there would be more of a balance of size, but this child's bones would snap like toothpicks in a crisis situation. So it's true that this is not a very wise thing to do. But this person that has chosen to begin posting inflamatory posts could have made their point a lot more subtly and a lot less hostile. But don't expect sensible posting from this person anytime soon.

>>How is that child abuse? Obviously someone had to be on the other side of the camera right? Probably an adult. Children playing with large snakes under adult supervision happens quite a bit and is a lot less dangerous than even taking your child for a ride in your car. Is taking a child for a ride in your car child abuse as well? No, its not.
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>>If anything that is child endangerment, not child abuse. That being said though there are far more dangerous things that children do everyday with or without adult supervision.....should all of that be considered child endangerment as well? Probably not. Like I said about riding in a car, its more dangerous to that child than laying on the floor with a large snake, is taking a kid for a ride in a car child endangerment?
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>>A child playing with a snake under adult supervision is in no way or form child abuse or endangerment, and even more so the people who took those pics should not be reported to anyone. Its people like you who make things harder for all of us who really do nothing wrong. Do you realize that? Reporting them for those pictures would be like someone reporting you for having a large snake and saying that you use it to frighten people when you don't do that. Would you like that? Get a grip man, something tells me you are one of those people who work for child services thats 22 years old, never had or raised a child, and tries to tell others how to take care of their children.
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>>Use your head. If nothing else at least label things a little better. If someone hates people with mohawks do you say 'that person is racist against people with mohawks' too?
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