News: 2 die in rock python attack

[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.