Posted on 06/13/2010 10:58:58 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Mother Nature has a wrath like no other.
A Nebraska man was strangled to death by his pet boa constrictor while showing the snake to a friend, police reported on Thursday.
Cory Byrne was pronounced dead Wednesday after police and paramedics loosened the 9-foot, 25-pound snake's deadly squeeze, said police.
The Nebraska Humane Society in Omaha, which currently has custody of the red-tailed constrictor, has not been able to determine what prompted the attack.
The boa seemed to be well-fed, according to the Humane Society's spokesman, Mark Langan.
"The sad reality is, whether it's a dog or a cat or snake, no matter how much you trust an animal, they react unpredictably in certain situations," Langan said. "Once a snake clamps down like that, they're extremely strong. It would have been very difficult for one person to remove that snake."
Langan added that, as far as he knows, this is the first fatality from a pet snake in Nebraska.
While the Humane Society of the United States claims that at least 13 people have been killed by pet pythons in the U.S. since 1980, this may be the first time anyone has been slain by a pet boa constrictor, said Beth Preiss, the society's captive wildlife regulation expert.
The ownerless-boa will stay in the Nebraska Humane Society's care until it can be placed in a zoo or sanctuary.
The snake just wanted them to stay in the Big 12.
While I feel that everything in God's creation has a purpose, I prefer to stay a long way away from some things.
Snakes I kind of mentally put into the creepy catagory (along with spiders, etc.) that I want to stay as far away from as possible.
I favor “Grab butcher knife. Remove 12” at a time...”
There are videos on Youtube showing this, such as this video:
Showing a Science teacher feeding his pet Boa Constrictor a live rabbit in front of the students in his (high school or college, I can't tell which) Science class.
While I know that is how things go in the wild, it has always bothered me that people feed their pet snake live mammals...
RThat’s a pretty creative dish in that Foodnetwork picture.
LOL!
Big snakes wrapped around small children is just wrong...
Strangulation, yes, kill it. A bite, nah.. Don’t kill it.
One could argue that snakes are a Satanic presence, not God’s. Oh yes, and liberals too.
Depends on how well he "knows" the wife?
Actually, I'm very sad that the man died as a result of his choices.
Years back I had a 4 foot ball python named Ozzie. Snake was dumber than I was, but he always got the best of me. #22 sums it up nicely.
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