Evil ball python stabbed 19 times

[scutechute]

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/M...184130421.html

copy and pasted from the above linked article - There is no name of the writer/reporter given.

Some people....

Man Called Pet Python 'Evil,' Stabbed it 19 Times: Police

Animal cruelty charge for Pompano man who stabbed pet python: BSO [Broward Sheriff's Office]


A Pompano Beach man is facing an animal cruelty charge after he stabbed a pet python 19 times after telling its owner the snake was evil, authorities said Wednesday.

Roy Strickland, 38, is charged with causing cruel death, pain and suffering to an animal in the incident that happened Tuesday afternoon, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit.

According to the affidavit, a deputy responded to a home in the 400 block of Southwest 2nd Street and found the Ball python in a glass cage with the knife still stuck in it.

The snake's owner and two witnesses said Strickland "stated that the snake was evil" before he opened the top of the cage and stabbed it 19 times, the affidavit said.

An animal control worker was called to the scene and he euthanized the snake, which had been secured, confined and posed no threat, according to the affidavit.

Strickland appeared in bond court Wednesday where he was ordered held on $10,000 bond. It was unknown whether he has an attorney.

[scutechute]

the article reminded me of this comic...

http://www.theatheistpig.com/comics/...11-serpent.jpg

[MrLang]

So what's this guy doing letting a psycho with a knife in his house around his pets?

[Mike41793]

So what's this guy doing letting a psycho with a knife in his house around his pets?

Thats probably not how it went down haha.

[RoseyReps]

Am I the only crazy person who would have tackled the guy, knife or not, after the first thought that he was about to stab my babies? 19 stabs?? I would have locked that man down with pistol to forehead before it got that far. (Not shot him, well...unless he didn't stop...then maybe in the foot...)


Edit: Actually, that's easy to say now, reading the story. But the people were probably in complete shock...who knows how I would have reacted given that moment. Rage definitely comes to mind though.

[OctagonGecko729]

From the story it sounds like the guy had access to the interior of the house somehow. The owner found the snake with a knife in it, which I'm sure means that the owner was not in the house during the assault.

[TheSnakeGuy]

So sad. If it was my snake a doctor would be fishing that knife outta the guy's chest. I hope this guy goes to prison for a long time. Though no amount of justice can console that snake's owner I'm sure.

[RoseyReps]

From the story it sounds like the guy had access to the interior of the house somehow. The owner found the snake with a knife in it, which I'm sure means that the owner was not in the house during the assault.

Was that in the article? I didn't take the link jump and read the entire thing, just the snippit posted.

"According to the affidavit, a deputy responded to a home in the 400 block of Southwest 2nd Street and found the Ball python in a glass cage with the knife still stuck in it.

The snake's owner and two witnesses said Strickland "stated that the snake was evil" before he opened the top of the cage and stabbed it 19 times"

[Kt21vkb]

Poor snake. Here is the perp.