Some Snake News out of Southern California

This is very upsetting. These are the kinds of stories that make our families worry when they hear that the hobbyist in their family is using racks/getting more than just one snake.

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Why does our hobby seem to attract so many nut-cases?? It's bad for our image!!:rage::rage:

Looks like he may be a member here http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/brow...imageuser=7237

From Bill Buchmans profile page...
My Collection:WAY TOO MANY!!! ALL BALL PYTHONS!!!

Yeah...ya think?

Im sure this is hyped up a lot. He may have had a few dead and some as the report say's BONES so starving snakes which is horrible but the majority of the queues seem to be coming from people who cry abuse because you keep a snake in a rack system. Like no
actual number of dead snakes just actual how many he had total... Hmmm. And the one quote "the majority of them are GOING to be dead". Come on really.


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Originally Posted by MonkeyShuttle

Im sure this is hyped up a lot. He may have had a few dead and some as the report say's BONES so starving snakes which is horrible but the majority of the queues seem to be coming from people who cry abuse because you keep a snake in a rack system. Like no
actual number of dead snakes just actual how many he had total... Hmmm. And the one quote "the majority of them are GOING to be dead". Come on really.


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Did you not flip through the photo gallery??? Or read the comments from neighbors???

That is just TERRIBLE. If I'm not mistaken.....is this the High End Herps Bill Buchman?? I read a long BOI thread on him before on Fauna....if this is the same guy....people thought he was dead? Not sure if this is the same person.

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Did you not flip through the photo gallery??? Or read the comments from neighbors???

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Belay my last!!!!!


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Belay my last!!!!!


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From what I've read, it seems he just got in over his head, combined with the fact that he lost his Mom a year or two ago...that can have a crushing effect on some folks...sad situation all around...for the snakes and Bill...

Guy's Fauna profile: http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...r.php?u=117357

By his thanked posts here and the replies on the article it looks like this guy was liked by both our community and his community in SoCal. Last activity here was in December 2012. Tends to be how stuff like this happens, people fall out of contact and then you see them on some strange/tragic news story. I always find it strange how no one was around to intervene before things get this bad. Did the guy have no one he could go to for support? Really sucks all around.