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Only on the Burmese python forum can you have a thread that cannot even fit on the screen created by a 14 year old wanting a giant snake. Why can this only happen on the Burmese python forum? Because this snake is sold to everyone and we know it (plenty of people who should not have them on here but hopefully they stick around and turn into the most responsible and educated people). There are plenty of other dangerous snakes but I know of very few 14 year olds who have them (but I am sure they will soon enough..right before an all out federal ban on a long list of reptiles). So far I am winning with 4 contributions to the thread and ToddBecker and JasonMattes have both contributed 3 times. We have a large number of people who have posted once or twice with some good information as well. Anyone else see a problem? Just curious Nicholas...did you get any e-mails from people offering you a good deal on a Burmese python since this thread? It would not surprise me if he did.

Someone in that thread mentioned it's been kinda boring here lately. So true. I thought it was entertaining. Not to lessen the severity of what will inevitably happen but this is the hand we were dealt. I also get a kick out of reading what portions others find interesting/disturbing. Some of us can be really touchy, get our feelings hurt over small statements. Probably myself included but either way, entertaining. It's also a good way to hone your argumentative skills. Even better, tele-marketer calls your home. Your eating dinner with the family, having a good time and someone wants to tell you they've been by your home and think you could use vinyl siding. That's great except your house is made of BRICK! Do you say no-thanx and hang up or......do you start a conversation with this person and launch a barrage of confusing, conflicting, insulting, obnoxious statements that ticks off or confuses them so bad, they have their supervisor speak to you instead? If this sounds entertaining, try it sometime. My 14 & 16 year old daughter are pretty good at it. They do quite well in school when other kids try to tease them. I'm done babbling. Vote Quimby!
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DZ

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

I wonder what would have happend if he had posted on the venomous forum that he wanted to get a rattlesnake? I think they both are just about as dangerous.
A rattlesnake would be easier to house care for and handle without having a couple friends come over every time he wanted to move the snake.(not saying he should get one) But i am sure nobody would have approved of that either yet he and his "mom" think we are all nuts. I wonder what his "mom" would think about having a easter diamond back or southern pacific in the house?? After all they could kill you..right?

The biggest problem that I see with people is that some, think that after they have owned a rat snake, ball python, or something of that sort, or a smaller boa even, that they are NOW ready for the big boys. So many people, especially the younger generation (mainly because the younger generation seems to think that they are invincible) that because they can work with a boa of some sort and they haven't had that big of a problem handling it, that the larger ones are going to be the same. Usually it is because of lack of even handling one of the larger (adults) that the misconception of being able to handle them exists. I don't know what I would have ever done if I hadn't had the few people in my life to provide me the extra opportunities, to improve my skills and experience.

I just wish, every younger kid that has a love for these animals, had the same help that I did through my even younger years.