Glacier123: DogS laughter: notmtwain: I heard some python guys used to nail their pets to their perch. That might have helped in this case.

Never heard of that. Makes me think you could give a snake a regular piercing and then stake it to whatever you felt like. I suppose you could even run a string through it and tie it up.

I think someone missed the reference

Since I said, "never heard of that" you are obviously correct. What was he referring to?

The mother of the child is also obviously brain damaged and should be immediately sterilized before she spreads her stupid again. A large snake like that is a two-person job to handle for ADULTS. You never, ever handle one by yourself and you certainly don't allow children to "play" with them.

/owns reptiles
//responsibly, even

FTFA Wednesday, July 1, 2009. The pet python was found wrapped around two-year-old Shaiunna Hare in the home at approximately 10 a.m. Wednesday and strangled the girl during the night after escaping

Maybe the snake was just looking for dinner.

I GOT A SNAKE MANG
ONE TIME I FED IT MY KID
IT WAS ALL FARKED UP

Thanks MrBurns. Can't believe I missed it.

The pictures fox news had of the guy comforting his wife were priceless...

Now if thats not a classy looking family,I don't know what is:

Very, very sad. I don't understand why someone would want to own a snake at all.

sigdiamond2000: I've never met anyone who owned a large snake that didn't have some sort of major personality disorder.

THIS.

Wow players, conspiracy theorist, wiccans, gun nuts and Ron Paul supporters.

notmtwain: I heard some python guys used to nail their pets to their perch. That might have helped in this case.


/MPFC reference
// a tad obscure

Sybarite - I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

99.8% of cats don't fit that description.

LineNoise: The pictures fox news had of the guy comforting his wife were priceless...

Now if that's not a classy looking family,I don't know what is:

Dammit. Now I'm ambivalent. I didn't think stupid people felt pain before. I thought they were like fish.

Ugh. Dangerous animal people. Here's a tip, your python is not substitute for a personality.

theorellior: FTFA: Geoghegan said Shaiunna played with the python all the time and the snake had never been aggressive toward her.

The snake wasn't hungry at the time. Seriously, small children look just like large rats, medium dogs, or small pigs to a snake. Every one of them a mobile chunk of easily-swallowed mammal meat. All of them will do in a pinch.

I don't know anything about snakes but I have to wonder if the thing was escaping repeatedly because it was hungry. (I wonder how long it had been since the last feeding.)

That's some fine liberal parenting there, idiot. I hope he goes to prison and gets to meet someone's black mamba.

wyrlss: reillan: Wait, I'm confused. Who died?

The man whose snake owned a toddler?

Ah... that makes sense now, thanks

LineNoise: The pictures fox news had of the guy comforting his wife were priceless...

Now if thats not a classy looking family,I don't know what is:

A little off topic, but I bet they had the best sex ever later that night. It's weird, but I find the two best sex nights I have had with my wife have been after a family member has died. I mean, she goes crazy after crying for hours and hours and farks me to tears basically.

So they have that going for them.

TheKingOfMexico: ThatWomanFromMassachusetts: I'd say worse things about him, but he's got to live with himself for the rest of his life, and that's probably punishment enough, so I'll stop at "idiot".

Anyone who thinks that absolutely everyone in the world "lives with" guilt for their actions has never spent time with actual criminals.

...except this guy doesn't appear to be a criminal, so much as stupid and irresponsible. Seems like that stupidity led to an accident (it certainly doesn't sound like he tried to get anyone killed by his snake, even though he should have known it was a possibility) and he probably will have to live with guilt.

The guy isn't a hardened criminal who was running around intentionally doing wrong. He's just an idiot.

Add me to the list of people who do not understand why you would want to keep a large carnivorous snake around the house as a pet. There was a freaky article in the New Yorker a few months ago about the growing population of feral Burmese pythons and other exotic species in Florida.

boyvoyeur: Sybarite - I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

99.8% of cats don't fit that description.

Cats aren't pets either. They are reptiles with fur.

First of all the biggest thing that I see is that he kept the Burmese Python in a Glass Aquarium.. That was the biggest irresponsible thing any snake owner can do, especially with a species that can get hit 20+ feet. A responsible snake owner would have had a proper cage set up that has locking doors and not a lid *should be a solid box of wood or plastic with doors on the front*, preferably keeping the reptiles enclosures in a separate room with a locked door, in case there was an escape... Just a case this guy is an idiot and should be charged with the crime over the death of his daughter because being irresponsible is not an excuse!

I had a large boa that I force fed stew beef. She new who I was. That did not keep her from biting my girlfriend who tried to pick her up when I wasn't there.

notmtwain: I heard some python guys used to nail their pets to their perch. That might have helped in this case.

Ya but that is strictly for the Norwegian Blues. Beautiful plumage on them but if you dont nail them down they will muscle open the bars and fly right out of the cage

/cheese shop is my 2nd favorite

At least they're going to try and save the snake.

Renart: There was a freaky article in the New Yorker a few months ago about the growing population of feral Burmese pythons and other exotic species in Florida.

I love the use of the word "feral" as applied to pythons. They were never a domesticated species to begin with. Unless "feral" in this context means "not in an unlocked box in some idiot's garage."

boyvoyeur: Sybarite - I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

99.8% of cats don't fit that description.

I think fark might be able to agree with you on this one because every farker/farkette's cats fit into the .2% margin.

headcrack: asmodeus224: Silly white people

Indeed. Why have pets if you can't force them to fight each other to the death?

zing

Sorry, since this is fark, I'd better say knew. ftfm

He was probably more upset that they were taking his snake away then the kid dying.

FTFA: Geoghegan said Shaiunna played with the python all the time and the snake had never been aggressive toward her.

Really! Did she really...sounds like THE SNAKE was playing with its food.
Child endangerment, neglect, failure to protect etc...etc...
A good dad is not the description for this a$$clown.

Ah yes, Exotic Pet Owner, falling somewhere between meth addict and bald-guy-in-corvette-that-hangs-out-with-highschool-kids.

Good job!

Burmese pythons aren't dangerous, it's how you raise 'em

DogS laughter: Sybarite: I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

I don't think any cold blooded animal can really be called a pet. I've had tropical fish that would take food from my fingers, but I never thought of them as pets.

I'd agree, except for the puffer fish. The little dudes are like puppies.

headcrack: Indeed. Why have pets if you can't force them to fight each other to the death?

The toddler lost this time.

budsterr: That's some fine liberal parenting there, idiot. I hope he goes to prison and gets to meet someone's black mamba.

Totally. Rural Florida is filled with libs. It's just like East Texas - homo lib heaven.

TallyGirl: He isn't actually the father of the toddler who was killed...his other baby mama was the one who said he was a great dad. He's the boyfriend of the little girl's mother.

I'm adding "does not own any stupid, dangerous pets" to my list of criteria in choosing a boyfriend. (That's now number three behind 1)has a job and 2) is not a child molester)

1)✓
2)✓
3)✓
How you doin?

/I used to live in tally, was happy to see Leon Pub made the list of best bars in fl on some foxnews story this morning.

LineNoise: The pictures fox news had of the guy comforting his wife were priceless...

Now if thats not a classy looking family,I don't know what is:

What a boa and a python might look like.
http://tinyurl.com/mjl529
(copy and paste)

wyrlss: LineNoise: The pictures fox news had of the guy comforting his wife were priceless...

Now if that's not a classy looking family,I don't know what is:

Dammit. Now I'm ambivalent. I didn't think stupid people felt pain before. I thought they were like fish.

Give me a hook and we can have definative proof...

These sorts of stories always tick me off. Why keep a potentially dangerous and untrained animal in an unsecured pen/cage/whatever? Particularly if there is a small child in the home?

We have a highly trained and very obedient GSD and we NEVER leave the tater tot alone with the dog. And we shut the baby's door at night to keep the dog from going in there when we're not around.

WTF is so dang hard about that? That poor little girl would still be alive if these hicks had even the slightest bit of sense.

theorellior: Renart: There was a freaky article in the New Yorker a few months ago about the growing population of feral Burmese pythons and other exotic species in Florida.

I love the use of the word "feral" as applied to pythons. They were never a domesticated species to begin with. Unless "feral" in this context means "not in an unlocked box in some idiot's garage."

Ha ha, you're right. I should have said "escaped Burmese pythons and their offspring".

headcrack: asmodeus224: Silly white people

Indeed. Why have pets if you can't force them to fight each other to the death?

This

notmtwain: I heard some python guys used to nail their pets to their perch. That might have helped in this case.

*snerk*

Actually, "Burmese" is probably not the correct nomenclature. This was a Myanmar python.

What a python full of two year old might look like:

Can you breath?

I can breath out...

Gotta love FL. Only That many stupid people gather in one state could generate such wonderful stories.

He found the snake outside the enclosure, put the snake in a bag and returned it to the enclosure, but never wondered how the h3ll the damn thing got out in the first place.

They let a child play with an 8 ft python.

Despite Ball Pythons taking over from FL to AL he still keeps one illegally.

I don't think the word 'moron' is descriptive enough to describe this guy. He should be locked up to protect the rest of the family, and the country.

boyvoyeur: Sybarite - I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

99.8% of cats don't fit that description.

You must not have a cat. My four cats sure are affectionate.

Snakes are cool but why not just go to the frigging zoo? I have a ball python, and she is maybe 4ft long, and all it does is take up space, make a mess, and eat rats. She doesn't give a crap who anyone is and has no emotional capacity. At least she won't get big enough to kill anything I care about. The cat could kick her ass.

I'm voting for the idea that the snake was underfed. These people don't appear to be rolling in dough looking at their house. And you have to feed large snakes fairly expensive prey items. They aren't giving away rabbits at Petco. The daughter had bite marks on her head and would have been eaten if the man hadn't stabbed it.