Scaring aunt with my ball python!!

[chapskis1]

I saw this post last night before I went to bed, and I was surprised that everyone was giving praise. I was not impressed by the video at all. I just got home from work, and revisited the thread to see if I was the only one that disapproved -- I'm glad there are other sensible people out there as well.

Whether the OP new about the happenings or not is besides the point -- as others said it was in poor taste to post it on YouTube.

Scaring someone that doesn't care for snakes is all wrong. I have several friends that were scared of snakes. Instead of scaring them, I tried to reason with them, and try to find out where there fears stemmed from. Most of them had never seen a snake up close, and were just scared out of ignorance. I convinved a lot of them to at least touch my snakes, and then after a while they asked to hold them. After that, most of them love snakes now.

If I had scared them, they probably would be less likely to even consider having anything to do with snakes.

Alright, I'm off my soapbox now...