There was a story of how a mayor had his home invaded for a "drug bust" because drugs were being sent to his house by dealers and the boxes were to be "picked up" again. Either way they entered without a warrant, shot and killed their two dogs, and held the family at gunpoint (if I remember correctly in pajamas). Oh did I mention? They shot one of the poor dogs as it was running away. That's real life-threatening. Lots of :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: happens. I used to believe in the police and how they will help you. After actually reading some of these stories, I realize that police are just normal human beings, some of them with horrible cases of god complex mixed with weapons on-hand. Just a couple years ago they had a huge unnecessary and dangerous use of pepper spray incident at my university :/
Just as reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_...ence_drug_raid
I think the problem is that there's really no "main all-knowing, 100% time all right thing" that governs what's right or wrong. So things just go whichever way the general population is educated as, and in this case the general population knows nothing about reptiles.