Quote Originally Posted by joepythons
Last year i took a baby ball python to my daughters school.I was on one side of the school when a lady on the other side of the school started screaming.Of course everyone looked to see what was going on.She ran into the school screaming that my snake was going to kill her.Now i was at least a couple hundred feet or more away but this lady swore up and down my snake was going to get her.Now i myself knew this lady was full of it but she did cause a disturbance aimed at me.Look at it this way if you will I.E people throw themselves in front of cars and sue the driver for hitting them and they win.What stops a reptile hater from hurting themselves and blaming it on you and your reptile? Think about it.Everyday people are trying to take our rights away to keep reptiles something like my example would be a ton of evidance against all of us as one.Why take a chance?
There is a point where people are responsible for their own behavior and unreasonable fears. Should we not walk our dogs because some people out there are afraid of them?

I am NOT advocating taking snakes out in public and taunting people with them. I'm just saying that IF I happened to have a snake and some stranger decides to utterly freak out and make a fool of themselves, well that is their issue, not mine...so long as I have behaved in a reasonable and responsible manner.