Python Attack Child!

It's a wonder the media didn't call it "Deadly Snake plague at park - out of control - try to drag off baby to den."

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Yeah the news headlines really exagerate(sp?) the subject just to draw you in then once you read the story its not that terrifying(sp?)

I just really don't understand how so many people can be scared of snakes, I guess it's just a lack of information most people have...


Lol yeah, this article perked me up right away when i read it was in "Pineville", because I live in Prineville.
(sorry it's a bit off subject)

MSNBC's version actually had the pics...A ball python. The saddest part...the guy beating the snake w/a shovel :mad: ...most pathetic??? that some dumb*** told the mother that it was poisonous, and that's when she panics and starts crying.


Heellllllooooooo.....Nothing like dumb***ks causing even more problems in the herp world. In a few days, those teeth marks won't even be there any more.

If the snake's 4', WHY/ HOW was it that the mother MISSED IT?!? And if she saw it...sat the baby close to the snake? OR, better yet.....where was she that she wasn't WATCHING the baby so that she saw the snake approach the baby? It took the baby crying to get her attention.

HUH? Just doesn't make any sense.....but it's the BP that's the villain.

Wow!! headline news, now they should do a story on how many kids are bitten by dogs in an average year. A much more dangerous bite, trust me

I appreciate the comments everyone has offered, but there's one thing I think we're missing. I think it's true that the BP got clobbered b/c of the general ignorance of the non-herp public (that's a tough one to overcome). Plus, if my toddler had a hefty snake wrapped around its leg, you bet I'd make sure the toddler and the snake parted ways very quickly. I also think the media distorted what likely happened (if it constricts and bleeds, it leads). But the most egregious problem is the pea-brained owner of the snake who either let it go b/c they no longer wanted it or wasn't a careful enough owner to keep the snake in a secure enclosure. If the owner of the snake wouldn't have done/not done what they did, none of this would have happened. Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by mr shocker0

I just really don't understand how so many people can be scared of snakes, I guess it's just a lack of information most people have...
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Remember the snake was the first bad thing to be introduced to mankind in many religions so I guess they are raised to be afraid thinking it is a devil.

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

Remember the snake was the first bad thing to be introduced to mankind in many religions so I guess they are raised to be afraid thinking it is a devil.

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Yup, Satan took the form of a serpent, who actually had legs at the time, and offered the forbidden fruit to Adam and Eve, and they were cost out from the garden, and the serpent was forever cursed with having to slither on its belly.

Thats discussed in Genesis in the Bible, which goes with my religion of Christianity, however, I know all of this, and truly believe it, but I own snakes, 2 of them, and plan to get more, so does that mean I am housing Satan? Hell no. (haha, I'm rocking the puns today)

Anyone who thinks snakes are "evil" because of their or someone else' religion is a bit loony. I don't think its an idea they are evil, I think its more of a, snakes are dangerous and all are poisonous, idea. You see a snake in the wild, most likely the sucker is poisonous, we just take the time to find out, but as a kid, your told to stay as far away as you can cause your parents don't want their curious kid to go pick up a copper head or a cotton mouth.

I got lucky, spent 12 years of my life in the Boy Scouts, am a proud Eagle Scout now, and my dad was with me the entire time. So I got to spend TONS of time out in the wild camping and back packing, so we got to learn all about snakes, so for me, I was never afraid of em.

Now my mom, she won't even touch my two BP's. :8:

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Yup, Satan took the form of a serpent, who actually had legs at the time, and offered the forbidden fruit to Adam and Eve, and they were cost out from the garden, and the serpent was forever cursed with having to slither on its belly.

Thats discussed in Genesis in the Bible, which goes with my religion of Christianity, however, I know all of this, and truly believe it, but I own snakes, 2 of them, and plan to get more, so does that mean I am housing Satan? Hell no. (haha, I'm rocking the puns today)

Anyone who thinks snakes are "evil" because of their or someone else' religion is a bit loony. I don't think its an idea they are evil, I think its more of a, snakes are dangerous and all are poisonous, idea. You see a snake in the wild, most likely the sucker is poisonous, we just take the time to find out, but as a kid, your told to stay as far away as you can cause your parents don't want their curious kid to go pick up a copper head or a cotton mouth.

I got lucky, spent 12 years of my life in the Boy Scouts, am a proud Eagle Scout now, and my dad was with me the entire time. So I got to spend TONS of time out in the wild camping and back packing, so we got to learn all about snakes, so for me, I was never afraid of em.

Now my mom, she won't even touch my two BP's. :8:

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WTF...Satan was a skink...lol

Yea I used to not really care for snakes just liked the ones i saw in the yard, but as I start to get into them...seeing balls and boas and what not, they truly IMO are the most beautiful animals with the most variations. For those that believe...God did a great job with these animals :)

It makes no sense to me why someone would set their snake free in the wild if they didn't want it. Ball Pythons can get you some money, even if it is just a normal one. And since most people are obviously not in the natural environment of ball pythons, releasing them "for humane purposes" is dumb.

I feel bad for the snake, but I feel a *head desk* moment when I think of that mother not looking where she put her child.