http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-daughter.html
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/...friend_jar.php
http://abcnews.go.com/US/python-owne...ry?id=14373295
^ News stories about the incident in the YouTube video ^
The "adults" (and i use that term loosely) in this case had a history with DCF (who were aware of the python), drugs, and the snake's owner had 6 previous felony convictions.
And yeah, was a really crappy snake keeper to boot.
The licensing thing doesn't bother me - because licensing can't stop stupid.
Very sad tragedy. That poor little girl. Every few years a story pops up about a python killing children. The most recent one I remember on the news was the rock python who killed two boys 5 and 7.
Always so very sad.
Whether humans are considered prey by appropriate sized constrictors has been disputed by herpatologists forever. Mostly on account of our broad shoulders being problemstic for snakes to swallow. Anywho I've always been interested in "Man eaters". Read Jim Corbett's books as a kid and have since spent hundreds of hours reading accounts of them, mostly big cats, crocs and wolves, but there are several accounts from rural villages of anacondas, retics, and rock pythons preying on children and rarely even adults.
Here's an interesting read on the subject concerning retics:
http://m.pnas.org/content/108/52/E1470.full
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