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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
 Originally Posted by Clementine_3
It angered me soooo much that when they showed the death count from "pythons" since 1980 the background picture was a juvie BALL PYTHON. The media doesn't seem to differentiate between burmese pythons and any other python species. "If it's a python it dangerous" is their attitude
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
yeahI be irked they not showing the right images or info when the post the video clip an d what not.
they did show dave ablino as it was aligning the jaws of albinos and anther breeders clip. The also need ot referto the different snakes they used in the clips.
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
I watched the clip. Of course, they only talk about the Burmese Pythons and how big they get. No mention about the snakes that don't get that big. If they do decide to use your egg cam you have to make sure they make it clear that those are ball pythons and not the Burmese Pythons that everyone is talking about right now. Someone watching who has no knowledge could say, "Oh my God, there's a guy actually breeding those things that are escaping and killing people!" They need to make it clear in their story that BPs don't get to the size that other pythons can get to, like the ones they showed in that video.
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
 Originally Posted by Fallout32
It angered me soooo much that when they showed the death count from "pythons" since 1980 the background picture was a juvie BALL PYTHON. The media doesn't seem to differentiate between burmese pythons and any other python species. "If it's a python it dangerous" is their attitude 
Yeah, that angered me too when I saw that. It's the media trying to put a scare into people just to make a story out of it.
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
12 deaths in 30 years? How many Burmese Pythons? Owning one sounds to be no more dangerous than walking across the street. When are they going to outlaw streets? Cars? Walking? It isn't even, statistically, newsworthy!
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
Gee whiz, the media portraying pythons as uncontrollable monsters, who would have ever guessed?! The media is about nothing but fear mongering and sensationalism. There is no journalistic integrity...
Big mistake allowing them to use your clip without 1st finding out how they were going to use it, or in what light the report was going to show pythons in.
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
That is apretty awful representation of the burmese python. They are not bloodthirsty killers and they did not establish a population from owners letting them loose.
Jeez way to scare people away from snakes :/
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
 Originally Posted by ssballow
12 deaths in 30 years? How many Burmese Pythons? Owning one sounds to be no more dangerous than walking across the street. When are they going to outlaw streets? Cars? Walking? It isn't even, statistically, newsworthy!
Exactly! there are around 30 people killed by dogs every year! is it illegal to have a dog?
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Re: CBS News and my egg cam
Like Adam Wysocki said, 12 deaths (and not even most from the pet population) from the past 30 years show the seriousness that python keepers give to their hobby.
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