[vbmoneyspender]

Very suspicious. The snake kills one boy and then moves on to the next one?

[xzins]

What’s suspicious to me is that these boys play with the owner’s boy and that the owner’s boy was in a different room. It’s also suspicious that the owner attracts lots of young kids with his “zoo”. Based on what I’ve read, the mother of the dead boys doesn’t have a male presence in her home, and the owner of the snake has no female presence in his home. (In short, the reports doesn’t mention the father of the boys or the mother of the owner’s son.)

It’s suspicious to me that the snake smashed a hole in the ceiling and dropped down to attack the boys. It’s suspicious that the snake got out of its cage. It’s suspicious that it went through a ventilation system and then got out of that ventilation system.

This article says that one of the police said something like it’s “very, very unusual.”

Plus, the picture of the guy looks creepy.

So, while last night I was defending the idea that the snake would kill and not eat (I still think that’s within reason), I think there are other things about this case that stink.

[spetznaz]

The whole story is very suspicious. Ranging from how the python escaped and went into the home, to how it attacked one boy, killed him, didn't eat him, and went to the other, killed him, and didn't eat him. If it really is a 16 foot African Rock Python, I have seen one eat a full grown goat (at a park in Mombasa, Kenya), and another eat an adult Thompson's gazelle at a park. A 5 year old boy would be an easy swallow, particularly considering a 5 year old boy (or a boy of any age for that matter) doesn't have horns or a body shape that is not exactly convenient for the snake.

Hey, it may turn out that the snake did kill the two boys, but it will be the first known case of a snake of that size killing two victims of that size, and then just going to hide. Especially after 'punching a hole' in the ceiling.