Tom Crutchfield Incident On Swamp Wars Tonight

[MasonC2K]

They first take a tour of his facility and showed some of the venomous snakes he has and then later incident itself. They had Swat Teams and everything. They never named the gunmen only said it was Tom's partner and friend. Tom said they had a arguemnt and then he (the gunmen) pulled a gun and start wacing it around like an orchestra conductor and he (the gunmen) was looking right through him at something that wasn't there.

In the end Tom said it was the saddest day of his life. He didn't know why his friend did what he did.

I know this is old news for a lot of you but I was just surprised to see it on a TV show.

The venom 1 team was there in case any of the snakes got loose durinf the Swat raid.

[garweft]

TV take advantage of a tragedy for ratings?? That's can't be....

[zach_24_90]

I saw it.. I didn't think the program took advantage of it in any way. They were simply documenting the incident as it occurred during filming with venom one.

[wolfy-hound]

Trying to grit my teeth through the show to get to the incident.

So far they've claimed that pythons go around Florida killing native wildlife, pets and people... then that boas kill people... and at one point one of the officers said she might have to called in a "venom officer" for this "african rock python" she found.

There was also a tegu capture that was played up about how it "attacked" the officer, when it was a tiny 2 foot tegu.

From this program so far, Florida residents are being eaten right and left every day by all the exotic snakes that people are releasing all over. Oh they mentioned Miami being the import hub and mentioned a hurricane could release pets... but went right back to repeating over and over about how everyone that ever buys a snake turns it loose.

I'm half expecting the "Oh GOD!!! It's a BOX TURTLE!!! It's coming after us!!! Reaally reeeally slowly... death toddling towards us...."

I hate Animal Planet.

[Highline Reptiles South]

I will not watch this trash TV again. Swamp wars is terrible for the hobby only to be a slave to ratings. According to the show red tailed boas are crazed killers and rock pythons and burmese lurk around every corner. Tonight was particularly bad....and to make drama out of the Crutchfield incident makes me sick. Morons...

[MarkieJ]

I thought there were no known deaths due to Red-tailed Boas. This episode claims a keeper was killed by one. On the Crutchfield incident, they focused heavily on the possible escape of the deadly venomous snakes. Wasn't Crutchfield shot in this incident? No mention of that. When they showed Tom's collection earlier in the show, I wouldn't be surprised if this was filmed after the incident and edited in, to keep with the storyline. Also wouldn't be surprised if the Hogg Island and Hypo Boa segments were staged...

[Maixx]

Don't forget.... a couple years from now Burms and ARP's were going to cross breed and create a supersnake that feeds exclusively on people...

Agree I hate Animal Planet

[geckobabies]

Really? After reading this thread I watched the replay and thought the show was ridiculous. How many times are they going to show the snake "hunting on the playground." LOL.

[mechnut450]

ok I know I am out of the loop I know nothing of Tom's issue and such not had much time towatch tv between spending time with gf when we can and workingon caughting up after 2 weeks of dog sitting in NJ ( figures when I left it rained enough t make grass grow fast )

[mommanessy247]

I'm half expecting the "Oh GOD!!! It's a BOX TURTLE!!! It's coming after us!!! Reaally reeeally slowly... death toddling towards us...."

nuff said.