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2 boys killed after python escapes store in Canada
AP via Drudge ^ | Aug 6, 2013 | Rob Gillies

Posted on 08/06/2013 7:09:05 AM PDT by arthurus

Autopsies will be performed Tuesday on two young boys who were strangled in their sleep by a python that escaped from a pet store in Canada and slithered through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: maul; pitbull; python; snake
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To: hecticskeptic

Snake kills the boys of the mom but not the son of the father? Don’t believe it.


41 posted on 08/06/2013 10:54:11 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: GreenHornet

In complete agreement.

Here is, (I hope) a link I posted on a diff thread, with very interesting interview with the owner.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3051431/posts?page=129#129

May God keep watch.
Tatt


42 posted on 08/06/2013 10:57:18 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Totally random... perhaps the two brothers were sleeping so close together that they both got strangled at the same time. Not known is how long the snake was in the room.


43 posted on 08/06/2013 11:05:34 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: hecticskeptic

Not buying it sorry. Snake’s a convenient scapegoat here.


44 posted on 08/06/2013 11:08:25 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: xzins; arthurus; MissMagnolia

‘It’s very, very puzzling’: Snake expert mystified by New Brunswick python attack

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/its-very-very-puzzling-snake-expert-mystified-by-new-brunswick-python-attack/article13610814/

Pythons seeking food “always bite first” before constricting their prey with their coils, said Johan Marais, raising the question of how the snake killed the brothers without anyone hearing screams in the apartment where they were having a sleepover.


45 posted on 08/06/2013 11:21:46 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: JCBreckenridge

The snake was in the room. It appears the snake might well have killed the boys.

The question in my mind is whether or not it was intentionally placed in the room because of:

1) silencing the boys due to some sexual or other crime perpetrated against them.

2) morbid, murderous cruelty


46 posted on 08/06/2013 11:36:13 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23587612

Interview with the owner. He says the snake was not near the boys, and it is unclear, to me at least, exactly where he found the snake : /

Pray for a very thorough investigation ya’ll.
Tatt


47 posted on 08/06/2013 11:40:26 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: hecticskeptic
I greed.

And even if the the snake did make a large noise in the night, this was a sleepover, children that age can be expected to make a helluva lot of noise throughout the night, playing pranks on one another.

Still I am open to the “killer pedophile” argument if the facts follows it.

48 posted on 08/06/2013 11:56:34 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: thesearethetimes...

I was just listening to the Police news conference online, and the police spokesperson said the snake was found in the same bedroom as the boys.

Another site said the snake has been “put down”, but I can’t find confirmation of that, and I didn’t hear that in the news conference.

The police say they are looking at other explanations.


49 posted on 08/06/2013 11:57:01 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: RedMonqey

In a sleepover with friends, why are they in separate rooms? That seemed odd to me.


50 posted on 08/06/2013 12:00:28 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

In the linked interview, she asks if the snake was there, and he says no, “the snake was gone”, and goes on to say he found it in a hole somewhere not specified.

Very strange.


51 posted on 08/06/2013 12:06:55 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Must have been a pretty durn big hole!


52 posted on 08/06/2013 12:08:06 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Now it’s real odd, because I just heard the police spokesman say it was found in the room. With my own ears.


53 posted on 08/06/2013 12:09:53 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

What was it doing with your ears?


54 posted on 08/06/2013 12:12:01 PM PDT by Eepsy
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To: Eepsy

hahaha.

Heard with my own ears the police spokesman say the snake was found in the boys’ room.

Is that better? :>)


55 posted on 08/06/2013 12:13:17 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Here is the link again, It takes a minute or so to load, and is just at 2 minutes, but is definitely worth a listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23587612

: /


56 posted on 08/06/2013 12:16:20 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

cbc news Michael Dick has tweeted:

http://live.cbc.ca/Event/New_Brunswick_boys_killed_in_reported_python_attack

RCMP say Snake was never in reptile store. It’s aquarium was in apartment. #Campbellton #cbcnb #cbcns #cbcnn

by Michael Dick via twitter 2:46 PM
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RCMP say the snake fell through ventilation pipe, and into living room, where two boys were sleeping. It escaped from an aquarium #cbcnb

by Michael Dick via twitter 2:43 PM

RCMP confirm snake has been put down. #cbns #cbcnb #cbcnn #Campbellton

by Michael Dick via twitter 2:39 PM


57 posted on 08/06/2013 12:41:45 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Mr Savoie said that after finding the boys’ bodies, he found the snake coiled in a hole nearby, held it down and put it in a cage.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2385145/Python-strangles-2-boys-5-7-sleep-New-Brunswick-Canada.html#ixzz2bDh1vcwU
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Mr Savoie said HE found the snake in the boy’s room and then HE put it in a cage.


58 posted on 08/06/2013 12:45:00 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: xzins

So the 100lb, 13’-15’ “vicious snake... a crazy python” lived IN the apartment, in an aquarium? It got out of the aquarium, crawled up into the ventilation system, fell through the ceiling onto two sleeping boys, and killed them both, with no one hearing anything....

Have I got this right?


59 posted on 08/06/2013 12:56:13 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Seems like the facts keep changing, doesn’t it? It all sounds really odd to me.


60 posted on 08/06/2013 1:05:27 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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