Python Attack Child!

I love the misleading headline.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291695,00.html

At least they included the comment from the petstore owner.

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Python Sneaks Up on, Bites 15-Month-Old

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:8: Now that's what I call Fair and Balanced.

I detest Faux News.

Poor snake :(

Meh....should be called the Republican Newn Channel.

Not as bad a Communist News Network though.

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

Meh....should be called the Republican Newn Channel.

Not as bad a Communist News Network though.

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it already is


and no its not

I wish I could hit the maintenance guy with a shovel!

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

Meh....should be called the Republican Newn Channel.

Not as bad a Communist News Network though.

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I love it man very funny

He probably stepped on the snake and that's why it bit him.

Maybe baby toes and mice have the same heat signature! My fiancee got her toes bitten by a ferret because of that resemblance... lol

It actually said in the first report he was bitten, and now it says it was wrapped up on his leg. Poor snake, hit by a shovel.. I'd hit that maintanance worker too.
At least the news included the correct information that it was a harmless snake and the quote from the pet store guy.
Poor kid with a dumb mom to sit him on a four foot snake.
Wolfy

Think about it though, we all know snakes and understand them. If I didn't know a single thing about them and some bigass snake was wrapped around my son's leg, I would beat the hell out of it too. Now granted, it was only 4 feet long, but thats pretty good size when compared to a 15 month old.

Ya, its ashame what happen, but I can actually understand it and not blame the people this time, which is VERY rare.

poor snake... i mean, all it did was bite a kid.

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Originally Posted by anthrpicdecadnce

poor snake... i mean, all it did was bite a kid.

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Ya, biting and wrapping around a 15 months old leg isn't a big deal at all.. :rolleyes:

Umm...ball pythons are slow moving for the most part so...how the :cens0r: can you not see a 4ft snake creeping up on you enough to wrap around your leg...Media is bull:cens0r: and the sad thing is people buy it.

im not defending the media at all, cant stand them myself.

But where did they say it was a ball python? And I dunno about you, but when my snakes are hunting a mouse, they move pretty damn fast.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Think about it though, we all know snakes and understand them. If I didn't know a single thing about them and some bigass snake was wrapped around my son's leg, I would beat the hell out of it too. Now granted, it was only 4 feet long, but thats pretty good size when compared to a 15 month old.

Ya, its ashame what happen, but I can actually understand it and not blame the people this time, which is VERY rare.

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i have a 16mos old son and would be mortified if such a big snake got that close to him, let alone wrap around him.. im a snake/pet lover by nature but i woudl do what came instinctually to me, save my baby!!!

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Originally Posted by sw204me

im not defending the media at all, cant stand them myself.

But where did they say it was a ball python? And I dunno about you, but when my snakes are hunting a mouse, they move pretty damn fast.

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First sentence in the bold. Not saying they can't move fast but normally don't and even when feeding it will sneak..and wait...sneak and wait. Still 4ft...that is like a little kid sneaking up on you I see little ribbon snakes and ring neck snakes in my yard without even looking and they are maybe 8 inches....48in...sorry it is just that size that I am having a hard time believing unless they were sleeping in the park then maybe, but wide awake....

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

First sentence in the bold. Not saying they can't move fast but normally don't and even when feeding it will sneak..and wait...sneak and wait. Still 4ft...that is like a little kid sneaking up on you I see little ribbon snakes and ring neck snakes in my yard without even looking and they are maybe 8 inches....48in...sorry it is just that size that I am having a hard time believing unless they were sleeping in the park then maybe, but wide awake....

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Ya, I see it now, must of totally over looked it, but other then that, I have no idea what you just said. Punctuation can really go a long way when your trying to make a point.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Ya, I see it now, must of totally over looked it, but other then that, I have no idea what you just said. Punctuation can really go a long way when your trying to make a point.

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lol my bad...i type faster than I think sometimes

Ball pythons can move fast, but from my experiences they don't. They usually move quick to get close and then from there they will sneak up and then wait and do the process all over again until the moment is right to make the strike or at least that is how my guy does it. Four feet to me is just about impossible to not see. I see ribbon snakes and ring neck snakes all the time without trying and they are a maximum of 10inches and they are as skinny as a pencil. Now a 4ft. ball python on the other hand to me is impossible to not see. One of that length is probably a inch or two in diameter and from my experience with them, they don't blend in grass at all. So unless they were sleeping I find it impossible for them to have not seen it. Also balls don't just bite. My theory is they pissed it off and it bit and because of its size they thought it was going to kill them so they yelled people came and to make them not seem like the bad guy, they skewed the story to make them seem as the victim. Just my :2cent:

Hope this helps.

yup, much better. :D

we all know how the media is, so the truth to this story will prolly never be known. But if events happen as they say it did, I don't blame anyone for their reaction.

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.