darn... another exotic problem causes waves

[recycling goddess]

this article was in the paper today...

sucks to think of what may occur because of it

[python.princess]

that's too bad!

[recycling goddess]

yup it sure is

[Rapture]

Neither did a five-year-old girl being choked by a corn snake at a pet expo in Abbotsford this March.

[recycling goddess]

ya sucks for us right now. we seem to be having a run on incidents right now...

hopefully, with the olympics taking up sooo much of the politicians time, they won't go through with any more bans. - although the keeping of tigers, bears and some others... i think they should be closely monitored. i have no idea if, in fact they are though.

[darkangel]

I was thinking the same damn thing. A corn snake. Choking a 5 year old. Choking anything.

[Gooseman]

I was thinking the same damn thing. A corn snake. Choking a 5 year old. Choking anything.

Misinterpretation of snakes behavior is what bites uss in the rump 9 times outta 10. She was probably carrying around the corn on her neck and something stressed the snake and caused it to tense up. Nothing close to choking, although still not exactly comfortable, especially for a 5yr old... But either way, what good ever comes from having a snake around a little girls shoulders unless it's being very closely monitored.

[recycling goddess]

the little girl was at a pet show... her mom who knows about corns was assisting the daughter to hold it and someone else thought the girl was being strangled and freaked out,... which in turn scared the snake and they removed it from the little girl and put it back.

it was truly nothing.

[Gooseman]

See... all i knew was "5yr old being choked by corn", and was able to trace the screwed up medias interpretation back to the truth. Just some twit who thought that a startled CORN snake around a girls neck was trying to inflict mortal wounds...