Posted on 08/05/2013 2:12:20 PM PDT by xzins
Two children died after a python got into an apartment in Campbellton, N.B., RCMP say.
"Police are investigating two sudden deaths of two young boys," Const. Julie Rogers-Marsh said Monday.
It's believed the snake escaped from a pet store called Reptile Ocean. The victims were boys aged five and seven. They were visiting a friend in the apartment above the store, police said in a statement released Monday.
Initial information indicates the snake got into the ventilation system and then into the apartment upstairs.
"It's believed the two boys were strangled by the snake," she said, noting that autopsies are scheduled for tomorrow in Saint John.
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What a horrible death.
I cannot believe people traffic in these animals.
Two kids killed? I’m betting there’s more to this story.
That’s what I was thinking. I could see one, but two?
Depending on the python, I think not. I was visiting the everglades this winter, and in the presentation by the park service people, they mentioned the problem they’re having with pythons that have been turned loose by owners. The everglades is just their kind of place. The park guy said that the incidence of game from deer down to rodents is so low that they’re rarely seen anymore. It’s attributed to these snakes.
Snakes generally eat what they kill, right?
Potential explanation; one boy tried to help the other by attacking the snake. The snake turned and attacked him after suffocating the first boy. Horrible!
Who was watching the kids?
You could certainly be right. I know certain pythons can get extremely large. As you said, horrible no matter what happened.
I can see a python killing one kid, easily. I’ve seen stories on adults being killed by their pet pythons ... if one gets the right hold and pins your arms or is around the neck, say bye-bye. It’s the “two” in a row I’m having trouble with. They don’t usually kill, let go and move on .... they kill, hold on, and try to eat what they’ve killed. If the second kid was trying to help the first, maybe there would be a defensive strike and it would let go and coil the 2nd kid. Some pythons, like Rock pythons are very aggressive so I’ll be interested to see what it turns out to be. I’m still thinking there’s more to this.
Parents face 35 years in jail after hungry eight-foot pet python kills two-year-old daughter By Jacqui Goddard UPDATED: 05:57 EST, 13 July 2011 77 View comments A mother is facing up to 35 years in jail for third-degree murder after the pet python she treated 'like a puppy' squeezed her two-year-old daughter to death. Jaren Hare, 21, and her boyfriend Charles Darnell, 34, went on trial in Florida today, two years after they found Hare's daughter Shaianna dead in her cot in July 2009, with their albino Burmese python, Gypsy, coiled tightly around her and its fangs embedded in her forehead.
see #13
Yes, pythons from Asia infested the Everglades after some hurricane and they “got loose.” And owners release them when they get tired of them. I lived on the edge of the Glades years ago; we’d occasionally see a rattler and perhaps even a gator would take a dip in our pool. Had to keep the cat indoors.
But these were rare occurrences. Now, pythons are wrecking the ecosystem, endangering the gorgeous Florida black panther and other native species. A real danger to nearby communities, and the communities are getting more and more “nearby,” as developers push onward into the glades. SouthFl is not a place I love anymore. Or even recognize.
Snakes can get pretty aggressive when attacked and attacking would probably be the first thing a small child would think to do in that situation.
The story is short on details. Were the 5 and 7 year old boys in the home alone? Couldn’t at least one of them scream to whatever adult was watching them, or maybe the snake got them in the middle of the night? Just terrible.
I just got back from visiting the Everglades too and they say these nasty snakes are now on top of the food chain and they are even destroying the alligators. When an alligator lays eggs it lays hundreds with nature’s intent only a two or three make it to adulthood.
The pythons are attacking the young ones and sometimes the larger ones and killing them off. Those snakes have killed off most of the mammals that once inhabited the area. Really sad.
Python kills owner when she tried to medicate it
“Medicate Diablo.”
The message, scrawled on a whiteboard, referred to Amanda Ruth Black’s pet python. A few feet away, its container was empty. On the floor, Black, 25, lay dead.
Black’s husband had returned to their townhouse, on Maracas Arch in the Witchduck Woods area, late Tuesday night and called police after finding his wife’s body, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.
A preliminary autopsy showed that Black died of asphyxiation by neck compression. The 13-foot-long tiger reticulated python apparently overpowered her as she tried to administer medication to it, Bernstein said.
I wonder when they will become the New PITT BULL in certain communities
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