Beware of the snake man

[Boomerang]

Must be nice to live in your own little world and not care about how YOUR actions reflect on other snake keepers.

This hobby does not need people like you...............GROW UP, stop acting like you are 12, your stupid immature little posts on CL and here are NOT FUNNY and do not help snake keepers, they just give more ammunition to those trying to take our rights away.

Interesting coming from someone who's picture says you basically like to piss people off with the things you say. Kettle/Pot??

[Boomerang]

Excuse me...? We have a hard enough time with people thinking our snakes are a danger to society without help! I would have reported you too, if only to make a point that you shouldn't be going around saying stuff like that. If there is a shadow of a doubt that it will come across as satire, nix it...

Pretty sure that if there was "a shadow of a doubt that it will come across as satire" then most intelligent people would get it. I'm not worried about the rest.

[jclaiborne]

Do you not understand what everyone is saying to you? Some people may find it funny, however there is enough bad attention on the reptile hobby that doing this doesn't bring anything to the table, it comes across as immature and like someone is seeking attention even if it is negative. It is right up there with people who troll the internet just looking to start trouble. This doesn't contribute anything positive to the hobby. I get that you think there is satire there, but for every person that thought "hey that hillarious" there were probably 10 that were disgusted, and negative attention/news travels faster, how hard would it be for someone to link that post to lets say PETA, they will run with something like this and stir up a dust storm. There is already enough false info floating around about large constrictors, things like this don't need to contribute to more misinformation.

[JoshSloane]

Well before I ever had a snake I'd get bored at work and hop on Craigslist. I'd post a picture of a Burmese and tell everyone that "Shadow" was once fed kittens by the previous owner and will not take anything else. I'd ask in the pet section for anyone with a steady supply of baby white kittens (Shadow prefers white).

It was a fun experiment. I got a lot of emails from people telling me how much they laughed at the obvious tongue-in-cheek post and a few telling me they were reporting me to the cops and all of that. I kept it up for about a month, I laughed at the responses.

One lady wrote me a nasty gram saying she cried for a day after reading my post and that she had reported me to the FBI or something.

I found it hysterical.

Wow. This is completely unnecessary. Anti-reptile people just wait for any kind of fodder they can use to justify outlawing snakes. We don't need to give them anymore ammo. Combined with people's inability to grasp sarcasm, and this is a deadly mixture. If this hobby is going to be taken seriously by the general public, we all need to avoid rhetoric like this. We want to be seen as competent and professional exotic animal keepers, not psychos that feed cute baby animals to vicious killer pythons. What I have found when educating about reptiles is that you cant use sarcasm, innuendos, or basically anything other than direct talk. People make assumptions and hear what they want to. To be respected as a hobby by the public, we must be the first to respect the animals and how we speak about them. Pitbull owners have the same issue with people generally misunderstanding the breed. But you don't hear them sarcastically speaking off the cuff about how their pit killed a kid, or only eats cats. Be smart and don't detract from the hard work that others put into pushing our hobby forward.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Interesting coming from someone who's picture says you basically like to piss people off with the things you say. Kettle/Pot??

Actually HUGE difference between telling the truth and not sugar coating things (which often offend people hence the avatar) and acting irresponsibly like a 12 years old (that would be YOU), but I am not expecting you to understand the difference since you have shown some serious lack of comprehension so far

[T_Sauer]

GOOD GRIEF! Can't a Mod just go ahead and ban Boomerang?? I'm pretty sure that the majority of the forum members will agree there is no room for this user and their ignorance here on our site ..... Heck, I'll go ahead and start the petition ... Click the thanks button on this post to sign it

[Boomerang]

Wow. This is completely unnecessary. Anti-reptile people just wait for any kind of fodder they can use to justify outlawing snakes. We don't need to give them anymore ammo. Combined with people's inability to grasp sarcasm, and this is a deadly mixture. If this hobby is going to be taken seriously by the general public, we all need to avoid rhetoric like this. We want to be seen as competent and professional exotic animal keepers, not psychos that feed cute baby animals to vicious killer pythons. What I have found when educating about reptiles is that you cant use sarcasm, innuendos, or basically anything other than direct talk. People make assumptions and hear what they want to. To be respected as a hobby by the public, we must be the first to respect the animals and how we speak about them. Pitbull owners have the same issue with people generally misunderstanding the breed. But you don't hear them sarcastically speaking off the cuff about how their pit killed a kid, or only eats cats. Be smart and don't detract from the hard work that others put into pushing our hobby forward.

You have some well thought and intelligent ideas here. Refreshing when someone has a hard time with another poster and does not verbally attack tham and call them names. I can't take those people seriously.

On another note I posted this on Craigslist as well and a lot of people thought it was great:



TURTLE: To Good Home. Eats Pizza only. (Sewer)



He can be a handful, but I have this turtle who's about 35 years old. He lost his job after he could no longer pass as a teenager.

Taking offers (rehoming fee)

[Boomerang]

GOOD GRIEF! Can't a Mod just go ahead and ban Boomerang?? I'm pretty sure that the majority of the forum members will agree there is no room for this user and their ignorance here on our site ..... Heck, I'll go ahead and start the petition ... Click the thanks button on this post to sign it

That would show me, don't need to be so buttucks-hurt my little friend. You're acting pretty immature.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

GOOD GRIEF! Can't a Mod just go ahead and ban Boomerang?? I'm pretty sure that the majority of the forum members will agree there is no room for this user and their ignorance here on our site ..... Heck, I'll go ahead and start the petition ... Click the thanks button on this post to sign it

Sorry but this is not how it works, we don't ban people because we do not like them or they don't fit in or their ignorance, or just because (if it was the case NO ONE would be safe ).

People are banned if they violate the TOS which the staff enforces with the infraction system, 100 points leads to a month ban and 150 points leads to a permanent ban.

Ignorance is not a TOS violation.

Now what does exist is the reputation system which let a user know what people think and whether they approve of the user idea or not, obviously Reptile Dysfunction is as low as you can get showing the disapproval of the community.

So no need for people to thank you in the hope that a member will be banned because it will not happen, but rest assured that the thread is obviously being monitored.

[DVirginiana]

You have some well thought and intelligent ideas here. Refreshing when someone has a hard time with another poster and does not verbally attack tham and call them names. I can't take those people seriously.

On another note I posted this on Craigslist as well and a lot of people thought it was great:



TURTLE: To Good Home. Eats Pizza only. (Sewer)


He can be a handful, but I have this turtle who's about 35 years old. He lost his job after he could no longer pass as a teenager.

Taking offers (rehoming fee)

See, there's a huge difference between this and the post about the burm eating kittens. Everyone over the age of five knows turtles can't eat pizza (and no one would be offended even if they did) and you inserted the image of a cartoon turtle. There is absolutely no way someone could take this as anything but a joke, even if they didn't catch the reference. I still don't see the point in posting things like that, but there's really not any harm done; I'm willing to bet you didn't get angry emails about people calling the authorities on you for that one either.

The post about the burm on the other hand doesn't automatically come across as a joke. You used pictures of actual animals, and claimed that the burm ate something that a burm actually could and would eat if it were available and the snake were hungry enough. Also feeding a burm cats would probably be considered animal cruelty in a lot of states if it were happening (rodents are generally considered non-dangerous exotics, and in NC at least there is a lot less legislation on what you can and can't do with them than for dogs/cats). If I just saw that on the internet I would be 50/50 on whether someone was joking or if some sociopath actually bought a giant constrictor to look like a badass and had no idea what they were doing. I've seen people make posts about similarly ludicrous things on forums that don't appear to be trolling. That whole post just played into every misconception the general public already has about big constrictors.