Ugh, I hate when things like this happen. We had a small cobra on the loose here in germany recently and everyone was so panicked, even though the poor thing couldn't possibly get too far. And now the idiots are breathing down the reptile community's collective neck again. Yeah, suuure, one of my little ball pythons potentially escaping their terrarium is a 'potential safety hazard'.
But there are people now petitioning to include all kinds of snakes (including like, cornsnakes, smh.) in the laws for dangerous animals, which would make it so much harder to keep them, especially in an apartment building. I wish people would just stfu instead of blowing up every little baby snake escape like it's a f*cking dragon.