News: 2 die in rock python attack

[RoseyReps]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but just saw this on a facebook friend's feed. I think it's actually a pretty decent article!

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08...python-attack/

This article needs to be passed around like crazy. THIS is what people need to read, not the ones making out pythons/snakes to be serial killers.

[KingObeat]

It doesn't help that Animal Planet and Nat Geo make all these anti exotic animal shows that usually portray the owners as mentally disturbed.

[Salamander Rising]

the humane society will jump in to tell us all about how the non native snakes should not be in this country because the are dangerous and can tax our system....well here is a message to them, you want to talk about a non native predator taxing our system? What about all the illegal aliens that enter this country everyday. They come here take our jobs , dont pay taxes, use our resources, commit crimes and what do we do with them??? Give them citizenship , free health care and welfare. Yes .... please save us from all the vicious snake armies waiting to take over. They wanna make a difference in this country leave the reptiles along ( many tax paying Americans make their living in this trade ) and do something about the illegals bringing this country to its knees!

The most ecologically injurious and numerous non-native predator is the common house cat.

Let's see them impose a ban on them.

/s

[Salamander Rising]

This article needs to be passed around like crazy. THIS is what people need to read, not the ones making out pythons/snakes to be serial killers.

This needs to be passed around, too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...pent-cage.html

Somebody explain to me all the photos of nearly naked little boys frolicking in his shop.

[Salamander Rising]

Very sad tragedy that two boys lost their lives. Rather aggravating that it only takes one bad keeper to sully the reputation of the hobby. It is truly amazing how one incident can affect the lives of so many across the globe.

Welcome to the modern world, where the fate of many is decided by few.

"The tyranny of the minority" is the phrase you're looking for, I suspect.

[Kodieh]

"The tyranny of the minority" is the phrase you're looking for, I suspect.

Tyrannidem minoritas

[eatgoodfood]

This needs to be passed around, too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...pent-cage.html

Somebody explain to me all the photos of nearly naked little boys frolicking in his shop.

Yep I was waiting for something like that. After seeing that I think we all can conclude what happened here. I think this case can be closed and our little creepo molester needs to be locked up.

[Pythonfriend]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08...python-attack/


the article is quite good, but i already found two mistakes, both related to the fact that 3 nations, namely Burma, Liberia and the USA, have not yet adopted the metric system.

"Hatchlings are 6cm in length". i guess they mean 6 inches? a typical cigarette is 8cm long, 6cm seems awfully small. but then, 6 inches also seems small.

"Snakes longer than three feet are prohibited pets in most provinces and municipalities in Canada". Take that, no corns or BPs for you! Umm, no, its 3 meters. I wonder how many people now get called by friends being told: "hey, i just read your corn snake is illegal to keep, its longer than 3 feet, isnt it?"

Journalists, sometimes you just want to grab them, shake them, and shout some facts in their faces. My message for this one would be: "Use the units from the original source if you want to use the same numbers or do a crrect unit transversion, you idiot!". Its still the best article about the event ive seen so far. But really, what did he think when he took the 3, deleted the word "meters" and replaced it with the word "feet", and that from a guy working in Canada for a canadian paper? Canada adopted the metric system long ago.

[Archimedes]

This case grows more and more sickening...

[RoseyReps]

I'm not saying this guy didn't do it...in fact, I'm sure there is foul-play her. But those pictures aren't something that I would, as a parent, immediately think "OMG MOLESTER!".
I've got tons of pictures of my kids running around like that, doing something goofy. It's what parents do. And when they don't have a bathing suit, guess what works just fine? Undies!

Does that mean this guy ISN'T a molester? Nope. I just hate seeing people ASSume because of pictures like that. These kids were over all the time, and supposedly "Like family" with his own son/himself. So these pictures don't prove to me that he was some evil child molester.

That being said, he probably is, and I just wasted my breath.

I just hate seeing people hung out to dry for this kind of picture, when 15-20 years ago no one would have thought ANYTHING of it. Hell, we used to run around in undies in the backyard splashing in mud puddles. Does that mean my parents were molesters?