News: 2 die in rock python attack

[sorraia]

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.

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?

I understand what you are saying... My child is often in her diaper only during the heat of the day, partly because she gets heat rash very easily. At the same time... I would be uncomfortable if she were running around nearly naked in someone else's home, I would also be uncomfortable if pictures of her like this were then posted publicly on the internet. It might just be me, maybe I don't understand the close relationship that man had with the parents of these two boys, probably because I don't have that kind of relationship with anyone. It does bother me a little though.

What bothers me MORE however... is the statement in that article about this snake escaping in the past. One escape can be an accident, fix the problem and move on. Two escapes... that could still be an accident, but also shows your first fix wasn't good enough. Three escapes, now it's just plain negligence. For any kind of animal that is potentially dangerous (something large like that 14foot African rock, or a venomous snake, or even a large dog), there shouldn't be any accidents, let alone twice.