Man dies days after pet snake wraps around neck in Lehigh County home

[JoeNapoli]

https://6abc.com/pet-snake-wraps-aro...dies/12071745/

[Bogertophis]

Well that's really sad & tragic for all concerned. And this is exactly why we're always reminding snake-keepers not to handle large snakes alone & without experienced assistants helping- there's just no way for one person to control an 18' snake. Actually, way less than 18' is a risk too.

Unfortunately this sort of incident feeds right into the snake-hater's point of view, even though it's no different than when motorcycle riders refuse to wear helmets- sooner or later, the reason becomes all too clear- but people don't rant about banning motorcycles based on the safety mistakes of a few.

[bcr229]

There is no way a boa constrictor got up to 18 feet. Retic maybe.

[Bogertophis]

There is no way a boa constrictor got up to 18 feet. Retic maybe.

Agree, obviously the reporter didn't know & was generalizing to the type of snake- ..."The coroner's office said it was a boa constrictor-type snake."

Not once did I think this was actually about a boa, & snakes are so often misidentified in news stories, it's a surprise when they get it right.

[Armiyana]

It's just the constrictor part that gets remembered... The neck was constricted so they say that because "boa constrictor". 9_9
Not that that's the primary way that more than half of the snake species in the world deal with prey. LOL.

[plateOfFlan]

Every snake is a boa constrictor or a rattler, every spider is a black widow or a brown recluse 😉

[EL-Ziggy]

I saw this story making the rounds on FB. It’s a very tragic story and it definitely bought out the anti snake folks. It was crazy reading so many comments about how snakes shouldn’t be legally allowed to be kept as pets. I tried to chime in on the responsibilities, experience, and caution required for handling giant snakes, and pointed out how few people are actually killed by pet snakes, but I highly doubt I changed any minds.


http://www.rexano.org/Statistics/Con...e_Fatality.pdf

[Snagrio]

Meanwhile dog-related deaths number in the hundreds over the past decade but let's just ignore those because reasons.
https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-st...fatalities.php

[Wanik4]

I saw this story making the rounds on FB. It’s a very tragic story and it definitely bought out the anti snake folks. It was crazy reading so many comments about how snakes shouldn’t be legally allowed to be kept as pets. I tried to chime in on the responsibilities, experience, and caution required for handling giant snakes, and pointed out how few people are actually killed by pet snakes, but I highly doubt I changed any minds.


http://www.rexano.org/Statistics/Con...e_Fatality.pdf

Yet alcohol and tobacco are legal...

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[Albert Clark]

Sad story for sure, but something about the whole scenario just doesn’t sit right with me. I’ll be glad to see as the investigation continues to unfold and new light is shed on what truly happened here. Maybe USARK Will have a different spin of the facts here. Just a feeling.