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All I have to say Bruce is it's about time you are coming here!
The internet is a big place... it sometimes takes awhile to find one's way around.

For Rab:

Below is a cut and paste of Jules' "FIRST" escape. He has gotten out 4X in total. I say with absolute humility as I am not so tolerant of loose snakes.

[QUOTE] I tend to be pretty intolerant of people that lose snakes. So I have been saying for a year now that I will no doubt lose one in the worse manner. It is all about evening out the universe and teaching humility.

Well the other day Jerome was doing laundry and I hear him say "who are you?"

He calls me into the laundry room, and there on the top shelf of supplies is a ball python, hovering and wavering, and S shaped.

I froze.

Said snake was tangled through a bunch of crap. So I say "make like food and don’t move. I need to find out who it is before we starting trying to grab this snake". A quick rummage through the rack and I realize it is Jules. He has managed to squeeze between his binder clips, WITHOUT popping them and has escaped. He is one of four that is on top of the rack in what I assumed were secure enclosures.

We wrestle with him, for a good five minutes, and finally get him off the shelf. He chills in my arms for a bit before going back into his enclosure. Although he did give a good jab and nice low hiss while we were trying to get him off this storage shelf. Attaboy.

Walking in there and seeing a snake in the most bizarre of places. My heart just sank. But at the same time it was such a bizarre thing to wrap my head around. For a moment I almost thought "wow... free ball python!"

And yes, his enclosure is now weighted down by the impenetrable wieght of classical sociological theory (Foucault, Freud, Baudrillard, and Bourdieau are keeping him in his house - if I misspelled... so be it).

I’ll be tearing apart the rack this week and adding new sides, and more shelves, so couldn’t have come at a better time.

And what does he have to show for it? Two perfectly lifted scales around his nostrils that look surprisingly like horns.

When I think about all the things that could have gone wrong I feel positively ill.[\QUOTE]

Bruce