Update from new owner, please help

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

"I have a friend "

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Enough said. How many BS stories start like this? Even if its accurate, its hearsay. If hearsay isn't admissible in court why should it be gospel here?

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Originally Posted by SiXandSeven8ths

Enough said. How many BS stories start like this? Even if its accurate, its hearsay. If hearsay isn't admissible in court why should it be gospel here?

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Huh... If you don't believe me, that's fine. I can only bring out the photos he took of the trapper's other snakes. Just seems really petty to post photos he took just to be like "See, online person? PROOF"

That was my thread, btw.

I would say something other than "friend", but it literally is my friend who worked in Ghana for 6 months. At least I named the trapper.

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Originally Posted by SiXandSeven8ths

Enough said. How many BS stories start like this? Even if its accurate, its hearsay. If hearsay isn't admissible in court why should it be gospel here?

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Because very few of us are actually herpetologists on this board. There is only one here that I know for sure is. Very few of us have traveled the world and I would say that no one on this board that I know of has hunted balls in their home territory. It is all we have. I agree to never take people's word at face value, but when it matches other observations the chances of it being factual are much higher.

I do not doubt that this account is true. I also believe it is one person's account and it is just part of the story.

Besides, this information came from Red which adds weight to its validity. She has consistently proved herself to be an experienced, rational, thinking human being and tends to be able to call bull when she sees it.

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Originally Posted by SiXandSeven8ths

Enough said. How many BS stories start like this? Even if its accurate, its hearsay. If hearsay isn't admissible in court why should it be gospel here?

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I don't think anywhere was Red's thread being presented as GOSPEL TRUTH but it was a fun share of information of what results were found in Ghana. There is no aggressive stance in it at all, nothing that argues ball pythons never lived in termite mounds, rather "hey they found ball pythons in places OTHER than termite mounds, how cool is that?"


So I'm having trouble seeing why you're taking it as such a challenge to dismiss it as nothing more than "BS" regardless of Red's knowledge, experience and connections with other people in the hobby/herp field.