Burm kills 2 year old girl

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http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19914383/detail.html

A man woke up Wednesday morning and found his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter being strangled by his 8.5-foot pet albino Burmese python, according to Sumter County sheriff's officials.

If you dont wanna read, I'll summarzie

-not chipped or registered as required in Fl
- It had escaped a bunch of times before, the latest being noon that day
 

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I just hope the hobby isn't being blamed again for someones improper husbandry.

I read this earlier while I was at work.

Horrible thing and its really sad, but then again, could have been prevented probably.
 

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of course the hobby will be blamed. sad about the kid tho.

its aggravating that this is headline news tho when horses, deer, pigs, (non pit bull) dogs and lawn mowers kill plenty more people! blah!
 

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Awful news!:wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:
I cant believe people wouldn't take more precautions to properly house there animals when children are in the house!
 

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Last week, FOUR different children, at four different homes in South Carolina, drowned in backyard swimming pools. FOUR DEAD KIDS. In ONE week, in ONE state, and if you don't live here, you probably never heard about it. All four would still be alive today if it weren't for negligent parents. Those kids are just as dead as the one that was killed by the python, but where is the outcry to ban swimming pools? People aren't afraid of swimming pools, and don't hate swimming pools, and banning swimming pools won't further some powerful special-interest groups' agenda, so of course this will mean more problems for the reptile industry and hobbiests.

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Last week, FOUR different children, at four different homes in South Carolina, drowned in backyard swimming pools. FOUR DEAD KIDS. In ONE week, in ONE state, and if you don't live here, you probably never heard about it. All four would still be alive today if it weren't for negligent parents. Those kids are just as dead as the one that was killed by the python, but where is the outcry to ban swimming pools? People aren't afraid of swimming pools, and don't hate swimming pools, and banning swimming pools won't further some powerful special-interest groups' agenda, so of course this will mean more problems for the reptile industry and hobbiests.

pitbulllady
i couldn't have said it better.
 

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Right on, pitbulllady. We demonize things we fear and misunderstand, so sadly the blame tends to fall on the animals rather than their owners. This was a preventable tradgedy; with proper containment, something like that should NEVER happen. I am truly appalled that more precautions were not being taken with a child that young in the house. At least the article pointed out that they were not keeping the snake properly and had escape issues before.

( Anyone else notice the HS's statement? 12 whole people since 1980? OMGZ BAN! ::rolls eyes:: )
 

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The story just fuels the fire of politicians wanting to ban these animals as pets.Florida is considering putting a bounty on the ones released into the everglades because the population is growing quickly and again is being blamed on pet owners who purchase these snakes and then release them in the wild when they can no longer care for such a large snake.You very rarely hear about the bunch that escaped from a pet store during one of the hurricanes years ago,but the press jumps on unfortunate stories like this.
 

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Well if the guy was keeping it illegally than he probably won't be taken as seriously by politicians as if he was keeping it legally and was himself, a "victim" as well.
TBH
 

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...Florida is considering putting a bounty on the ones released into the everglades....
I don't see anything wrong with that, if only it wasn't taboo to eat snakes in the U.S. we'd have a lot of the homeless and "misfortunate" fed. But then again, when people hunt deer for the homeless, 50% of them take it as an insult.
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Ha this is posted in Off topic

But my loud mouth is happy to Speak in both places...LOL..

In Canada I dont belive we are even allowed to purchase a snake that has the potential to grow that big....And you guys in the USA may be looking at something like that here soon if kids are dying.It is so sad both for the family and for the Herp community...What kind of rules and regulations are going to be imposed because some one is careless enough to not have and absolutly escapeable enclosier for one of the monster sized snakes of the herp world, with a 2 year old child in The house?
 

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I don't see anything wrong with that, if only it wasn't taboo to eat snakes in the U.S. we'd have a lot of the homeless and "misfortunate" fed. But then again, when people hunt deer for the homeless, 50% of them take it as an insult.
TBH
I agree.Nothing wrong with putting a bounty on something that is not native to the area and becoming over populated.I believe there would be a good number of people who would take part if it is ever announced.
 

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I agree.Nothing wrong with putting a bounty on something that is not native to the area and becoming over populated.I believe there would be a good number of people who would take part if it is ever announced.
Yes, there would be a lot of participants, especially with the current state of the economy. There is no better time to put a bounty on them than now.
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It would definitely be an experience to remember hunting them in the everglades.I believe there have also been reports of anacondas lurking in the glades as well which would make it more interesting.
 

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It would definitely be an experience to remember hunting them in the everglades.I believe there have also been reports of anacondas lurking in the glades as well which would make it more interesting.
There have been just a handful of anacondas down there, usually yellow but green too. It's dumb to let them go becuase you could easily make $250 off of a sexed cb adult of either species. Believe it or not but there have been unverified reports of Naja haje, the Egyptian Cobra in Southern Florida.
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I agree.There are plenty of people who would be more than happy to purchase these snakes and give them a good home instead of being dumped in the everglades.Unfortunately you can`t fix stupid.Are the cobras also in the everglades or have they been spotted some wheres else?
 

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Are the cobras also in the everglades or have they been spotted some wheres else?
Naja sp. [True Cobras.] have been spotted in many places of the USA. There was an infamous case, in 06 of a monocled cobra in South Carolina getting away and never being recovered. There is no telling where hot herps may end up from irresponsible keepers. The media reports usually call them king cobras but there hasn't ever been a valid report of a true O. hannah ever roaming free in the U.S. They are usually kaouthia but sometimes haje.
An exaple from a little known but completely valid [To my knowledge, sensationalism is all too typical.] source.
http://skinnymoose.com/moosedroppin...ning-deadly-cobras-loose-in-onslow-county-nc/
TBH
 
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Naja sp. [True Cobras.] have been spotted in many places of the USA. There was an infamous case, in 06 of a monocled cobra in South Carolina getting away and never being recovered. There is no telling where hot herps may end up from irresponsible keepers. The media reports usually call them king cobras but there hasn't ever been a valid report of a true O. hannah ever roaming free in the U.S. They are usually kaouthia but sometimes haje.
An exaple from a little known but completely valid [To my knowledge, sensationalism is all too typical.] source.
http://skinnymoose.com/moosedroppin...ning-deadly-cobras-loose-in-onslow-county-nc/
TBH
Actually, last year's infamous "cobra" sightings in North Carolina were almost certainly either misidentifications of a common native species of snake that DOES hood up just like a cobra-the Eastern Hognose-OR, were outright hoaxes. No evidence, other than some local yahoo's report, ever surfaced that there was actually a non-native snake involved. The "missing cobra" posters that were all over town proved to be untraceable; no one could find out who actually put them up. Now, it's awfully coincidental that whenever the Animal Rights folks are trying to push through legislature banning "exotics", all these "sightings" of everything from cobras to lions start getting called in. Most of the time, no such animal is ever found, but occasionally dead lion cubs or other deceased exotic animals turn up, and of course, their presence is blamed on some cruel, evil exotic pet owner having dumped it when he got tired of it or it got too big. The AR people are an underhanded bunch. NOTHING is below them in terms of going to extremes to get their point across. Anyone who'd put up a billboard following a gruesome murder in the town where the murder took place, comparing the deaths of chickens in a poultry processing plant to that of the murder victim, will surely buy a lion cub and abandon it, dead or alive, in a place where anti-exotic pet bills are being considered. They would not hesitate to call in a false report of a "cobra" on the loose, either, even though as I said, it's very common for Hognose snakes to be mistaken for Cobras. I've seen this personally, many times.

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Actually, last year's infamous "cobra" sightings in North Carolina were almost certainly either misidentifications of a common native species of snake that DOES hood up just like a cobra-the Eastern Hognose-OR, were outright hoaxes. No evidence, other than some local yahoo's report, ever surfaced that there was actually a non-native snake involved. The "missing cobra" posters that were all over town proved to be untraceable; no one could find out who actually put them up. Now, it's awfully coincidental that whenever the Animal Rights folks are trying to push through legislature banning "exotics", all these "sightings" of everything from cobras to lions start getting called in. Most of the time, no such animal is ever found, but occasionally dead lion cubs or other deceased exotic animals turn up, and of course, their presence is blamed on some cruel, evil exotic pet owner having dumped it when he got tired of it or it got too big. The AR people are an underhanded bunch. NOTHING is below them in terms of going to extremes to get their point across. Anyone who'd put up a billboard following a gruesome murder in the town where the murder took place, comparing the deaths of chickens in a poultry processing plant to that of the murder victim, will surely buy a lion cub and abandon it, dead or alive, in a place where anti-exotic pet bills are being considered. They would not hesitate to call in a false report of a "cobra" on the loose, either, even though as I said, it's very common for Hognose snakes to be mistaken for Cobras. I've seen this personally, many times.

pitbulllady
There have been true reports of cobras in the U.S. in which the animal is recovered. Just don't have the articles handy right now. There was also a zoo in TX that lost a tree viper. In WV authorities shot down a tiger 14 miles away from it's "home." This stuff does happen. This case may be inconclusive but there have been conclusive cases before. If they were animals released by ARs or lied about by ARs than fine. But you can't claim them all to be lies or AR releases. In North Carolina a herpetoligist confirmed seeing them but being unable to catch them. But that could be part of the possible AR game. Or just an idiot. Remember, college does not equal smarts.
Either way, wasn't there an HSUS member that bombed a puppy mill a while ago? Or is that, in your opinion, a fabrication as well.
TBH
 
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