Posted on 07/21/2021 11:33:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Monday night, drivers along Theodore Street in Joliet got a shock, when a 10-foot long ball python slithered across the road, stopping four lanes of traffic.
...The owner, who did not say how his pet got out, took the pet home without further incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjol.com ...
I'll be avoiding the Joliet area until a hard freeze.
I’m surprised a motorist didn’t run over it.
I would have gladly ran over it...OOPS... why does anyone think these critters can be pets.. I
The motorist probably didn't want to be arrested for interfering with a "peaceful protest".
Is there anybody in Joliet who knows how to make snake skin boots?
Python must have taken the American flt from Miami to Joliet.
Damn, snakes on a plane.
5.56mm
They aren’t. People who like watching constrictor snakes kill and eat live prey are the ones who like to keep pythons.
It’s not wise to stop for anyone anymore.
Never know what someone might be scheming.
Deer excepted.
Anyone else read the headline as “Python Stops Traffic In Toilet”? Or is it just me?
—”“Python Stops Traffic In Toilet””
The snake in the toilet was a week or so back and in Germany(?)... somewhere here on FR.
These types of animals should be banned from ownership. Why in the Hell would you keep a python as a pet?
A friend of Alice might be able to answer that question.
Wait...isn’t this a programming thread?
Yep!
And put it in reverse. And then back to drive.
Did they ever find the one in the mall?
What’s with all these “pet” snakes getting loose? Pythons and cobras, oh my!
No we aren’t.
I never feed live prey.
Ever.
Most owners I know don’t either because of the potential harm caused by the prey to their very pricey morphs.
One infected bite or scratch can kill a $5000 snake.
Why would anyone keep any kind of snake as a pet? I can’t understand it, but then some even keep poisonous snakes as pets...that is really outrageous. I’ll never even try to understand that one!
Well, thanks for the correction. Perhaps I’ve just known too many owners that prefer the live prey feedings.
First, it’s not a Ball Python, which never attain “10 feet”.
It’ appears to be a Reticulated Python, best I can tell from the lousy photo
Boas and Pythons are intelligent and affectionate animals who can become very attached to their owners.
Due to they way they’re built, escapes are not that uncommon which is why responsible keepers have secure enclosures, but even then, mistakes can happen.
It’s funny.
I sincerely do not like cats but I would never offer to run over [and back up, repeatedly until my bloodlust is satisfied] just because I saw somebody’s cat out running loose.
Rather, I would try and help the cat I don’t like, get to safety, just because it’s the decent, human thing to do, because someone, somewhere, may love it dearly.
Cats are just as much a non-native species as that Retic is.
I reckon I just don’t have an irrational fear of cats like some do of snakes.
Some days, FR is spectacularly repulsive.
Today is one of those days.
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