Beware of the snake man

[MarkS]

I appreciate that you wanted to help the situation, but at that point preventing bad press for snakes pales in comparison to helping save neighborhood pets. Any IT professional worth his weight in salt could have gotten their IP address easily. What that person was doing wasn't just "bad advice," that was a MAJOR animal cruelty case. With people like that you cant just tell them to stop it, as if they were a petulant child.

Sorry, that may have worked in 'the good old days' of the internet, but these days it's not so easy. And calling PETA or HSUS and giving them free ammunition is just plain stupid.