If you live in Florida, why the heck would you want a python pet? If you like big reptiles just go out and look at alligators.

(and feral iguanas. And feral boas/pythons released by asshats...)

Saul Good: Idiots who keep these kinds of animals bring this shiat on themselves. Darwin approves.

/I feel sorry for the kid.

spawn of stupid was not likely to do more than bring the world more stupid.

I feel sorry for a frog eaten by a woodland critter but what can you do?

A snake ate my baby! (NZ accent)

katerbug72: 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.

This.

Every cat I have owned in my life has been as affectionate as a dog. Not as goofy as a dog, not trainable like a dog, but very demonstrative and communicative.

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."

The scariest part of the article is that as the climate gets warmer, it's possible that the pythons could increase their range to over a third of the United States. Here comes the science. (new window)

FTFA:
Her body was taken to the Medical Examiner's office in Leesburg for an autopsy

I realize an autopsy is the protocol, but:

"So Lou, watcha see?"
"Well, looks like a bag of bones."
"Oh, in that case - next..."

katerbug72: 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.

Don't I feel dumb.
/dumbass=me
//carry on, nothing to see here

RandomExcess: A snake ate my baby! (NZ accent)

Ehh snike height mee byebye!!

canadianloon: 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.

That's what I like about her as well.

DROxINxTHExWIND: 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.

Cats! on a mother farkin' plane!!!

boyvoyeur: 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 obviously have never owned any cats or are unempathetic. Cats return the empathy of the owner. Dogs, meanwhile, will be social regardless of the empathy of the owner. (Unless specifically trained otherwise, of course. Hello Michael Vick.)

Back to TFA, this just pisses me off. Anybody who keeps a predator in their home along with suitable prey they they don't want to be prey is a moran.

theorellior: I'm glad the python was a great Dad, what about the asshat who owned it?

I dunno, but I'm concerned about the toddler who's father was crushed to death. That's a hell of a way to lose a parent.

If you had a snake-er
send your tot to her maker
post this on your grave:
Burma Shave!

MrsHashBrown:

We have a highly trained and very obedient GSD and we NEVER leave the tater tot alone with the dog.

Giant Slobbery Dog?

I used to have a Burmese python when I was in my late teens - I got it when I moved into my first place. I sold it when it got so big that I had to start feeding it rabbits - which I had to stun with a hammer to keep them from gouging the snake during their death throes. Specifically, after I'd stunned one and went to drop it in the cage the snake grabbed struck my hand and wrapped its self around my arm, with the rabbit..., and I had to pry it off me. I was about 10 seconds from telling my GF to go grab a knife so I could kill it when it let go. After that... done with snakes.

I would amend the earlier statement regarding snake owners and personality disorders by adding an age qualifier, like... say... 25. Before then, you're just a young idiot. After that... personality disorders are likely.

DAMN YOU HERA!

People... you don't need pythons around that will kill somebody.

If you really want a snake that would strangle you, all you need is one that could fit around your neck.

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

0/10

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.


not sure this man is a criminal, just an idiot who moved to florida

Wodan11: boyvoyeur: 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 obviously have never owned any cats or are unempathetic. Cats return the empathy of the owner. Dogs, meanwhile, will be social regardless of the empathy of the owner. (Unless specifically trained otherwise, of course. Hello Michael Vick.)

Back to TFA, this just pisses me off. Anybody who keeps a predator in their home along with suitable prey they they don't want to be prey is a moran.

The only reason your cat hasn't killed and eaten you is that you're too big.

wingnut396: MrsHashBrown:

We have a highly trained and very obedient GSD and we NEVER leave the tater tot alone with the dog.

Giant Slobbery Dog?

Only if he's been running! German Shepherd Dog, actually.

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

Gainesville? In Alachua County? These people may look like a lot of things, but University of Florida alumni isn't one of them.

He doesn't sound like college material, either (new window, 911 call in the video).

cowgirl toffee: People... you don't need pythons around that will kill somebody.

If you really want a snake that would strangle you, all you need is one that could fit around your neck.

Actually not how they do it sugar, they squeeze you much lower down so that you can't breath. Don't even wrap around a rat, one proper pinch does it.

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.


Its rare, but this is why I keep comming back. Well done.

Renart: 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".

That's nothing new, the only way I know that is because of a picture, that I can't seem to find right now, taken from a story I read in 2004 (right before I went to FL the first time). Its this pond with two or three large crocs (or alligators, whatever the freshwater ones that they have in the everglades are) and laying around them are about a half dozen very large snakes of varrying species (big yellow ones, black ones, and brown ones) all either released pets or the offspring of them.

/Still haunts me

Approves

Pmoon:
Actually not how they do it sugar, they squeeze you much lower down so that you can't breath.

Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

NannyStatePark: The daughter had bite marks on her head and would have been eaten if the man hadn't stabbed it.

They should probably count themselves lucky that they found the snake before she was eaten. Otherwise, they'd have a missing toddler and a fat snake. Would they have put the two together?

Pmoon:
Actually not how they do it sugar, they squeeze you much lower down so that you can't breath.

Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

DogS laughter 2009-07-02 10:08:27 AM
At least he found it before it had time to eat the poor kid.

Yeah, I thought that, too.


And just to tick-off a whole bunch of people:

'It's not the snake's fault, it's the owner's,
just like with pit bulls'

Believe it or not, some animals are dangerous and shouldn't be kept as pets.

Idiots.

lukelightning: Pmoon:
Actually not how they do it sugar, they squeeze you much lower down so that you can't breath.

Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

I hope my bad writing did not harm anyone. Passion of the moment and all that.

lukelightning: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

canadianloon: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

Do we have an alt unmasked here?

phartnocker: I used to have a Burmese python when I was in my late teens - I got it when I moved into my first place. I sold it when it got so big that I had to start feeding it rabbits - which I had to stun with a hammer to keep them from gouging the snake during their death throes. Specifically, after I'd stunned one and went to drop it in the cage the snake grabbed struck my hand and wrapped its self around my arm, with the rabbit..., and I had to pry it off me. I was about 10 seconds from telling my GF to go grab a knife so I could kill it when it let go. After that... done with snakes.

I would amend the earlier statement regarding snake owners and personality disorders by adding an age qualifier, like... say... 25. Before then, you're just a young idiot. After that... personality disorders are likely.

That sounds so exciting and easy. Why wouldn't people want snakes? It's much better than my mom's little dog who freaking poops and pees on a little sod pad in the patio and sleeps in bed with her snuggled up. Ugh, mammals. Yuck!

"The only reason your cat hasn't killed and eaten you is that you're too big."

Amen, brother. My freakishly fat cat is just waiting for me to kick off so she can eat my face.

/she told me so
//telepathy, you know

theorellior: lukelightning: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

canadianloon: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

Do we have an alt unmasked here?

Nope, unless I have split personality (I did used to live in Canada... and I do like loons). I think it's a quotation error. Or perhaps Canadianloon and I think exactly alike.

I've had a python for about...hmm...a couple of years now...

Also have a daughter, 7 years old now, was 5 when I got the snake.

But, as I'm not an idiot...I bought a BALL python.
It'll never get larger than 5 feet long. It can stay in an aquarium just fine.

Small snakes are cool.

theorellior: lukelightning: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

canadianloon: Wrong. I learned from the movie Anaconda and its sequels that constrictors kill you with bad writing.

Do we have an alt unmasked here?

Things that make you go hmmmmm

Idiot.

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".

No kidding. He finds the snake loose & then just puts it back & goes to bed. I find any of my critters out I'd make sure they need an engineering degree to escape a second time. Then I could go to bed.

PeterPipersPickledPecker: "Bonne nuit, petite princesse..."

Nice.

/"Dessine-moi un mouton!"

lukelightning: Or perhaps Canadianloon and I think exactly alike.

Too bad you were a minute sixteen from an identical simulpost.

I haven't seen it yet, so...

Here's a link to the complete 911 call audio (new window)

It's pretty difficult to listen to, really a sad situation.

Saw this on the news this morning, pretty sad. The family looked pretty trashtastic.

Question, to most snakes kill their prey before swallowing it, or do some swallow it alive?

I find it hard to believe that this guy walks upright, his knuckles must be scraped raw.

Many times they are still alive on the way down.

Snake? SNAKE?!

SNAAAAAAKKEE!!

BlorfMaster: 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. Dweebs, wasteoids, sportos, ...All think he's a righteous dude.

I can never see a list of stereotypes without thinking of Ferris Bueller.

My trouser snake never hurt anyone

/one of my regrets

theorellior: lukelightning: Or perhaps Canadianloon and I think exactly alike.

Too bad you were a minute sixteen from an identical simulpost.

Well, I was born one minute and sixteen seconds before canadianloon was.

ShamanGator: Idiot.

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".

No kidding. He finds the snake loose & then just puts it back & goes to bed. I find any of my critters out I'd make sure they need an engineering degree to escape a second time. Then I could go to bed.

THIS to the nth degree. The one and only time my 6-ft boa got out I put it in an enclosure so secure I had to put some serious work just into feeding it and changing its water. Then once it became so big I knew I wouldn't be able to defeat it, it went bye-bye.