Canada - Connor, 6, & Noah Barthe, 4, killed by python, Campbellton, NB, 5 Aug 2013

[matou]

His story is SO CONFUSING!!! Listen to this phone call. He kept the animals in the cage in his apartment???? He doesn't sound upset and actually mentions about it in the call.

http://globalnews.ca/news/762560/escaped-python-strangles-kills-two-children-in-new-brunswick/

 

[matou]

It went up through a ventilation system in the cage. You can hear the confusion in the interviewer's voice too. He has a son who apparently was home too.

http://globalnews.ca/news/762560/escaped-python-strangles-kills-two-children-in-new-brunswick/

 

[fred&edna]

I'm having a terrible time reading these news articles. I've shivered and shuttered. I don't even like the word "slither".

 

[matou]

I will try to find a report in French because although he speaks English fairly well, he is French Acadian from the area. Maybe he can't explain what he means properly.

 

[matou]

This report states that the python is 12-15 feet long and 110 pounds.

http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/atlantique/2013/08/05/001-boa-constrictor-enfants-morts.shtml

 

[matou]

So his facebook for Reptile Ocean is down?

 

[matou]

Story about him shutting down the store's fb page:

http://www.ibtimes.com/reptile-ocea...kills-2-boys-you-should-be-ashamed-yourselves

I also found some info about how bad his store was and poor treatment of the animals there out there in Googledom.

 

[Tugela]

Let's hope that the owners of that snake get at least the same
sentence that the parents of Shaianna Hare got.

12 years in prison.

They won't, the circumstances are different. The children were not living with the snakes.

 

[Ausgirl]

From the news link above:

The pet store owner Jean-Claude Savoie says the creeping horror slithered into the apartment in Campbellton, New Brunswick, through the ventilation ducts this morning and crawled into the ceiling.

It somehow punched a hole in the ceiling and dropped onto the small boys from above. It then coiled around them and crushed them as they slept together on the floor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sleep-New-Brunswick-Canada.html#ixzz2b91RRQKs

Yeah. I don't think so.

There's something really wrong with this man's story. And Super-snake there really wasn't acting much like a snake actually acts. Except maybe in Hollywood.

 

[matou]

exactly, listen to the phone interview here if you can: http://globalnews.ca/news/762560/escaped-python-strangles-kills-two-children-in-new-brunswick/

How does a snake punch a hole in the ceiling? He doesn't make any sense to me either nor to the interviewer. You can hear her confusion in her voice, THAT part is clear to me.

 

[matou]

Another fb story from Huffingtonpost.ca

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/05/reptile-ocean-children-dead-python_n_3709616.html

 

[DarkChii]

Pythons don't usually attack unless hungry most of the time to my knowledge. A 100lb snake would usually eat a piglet or similar, and generally nothing bigger than it is wide to make sure it can swallow it.

 

[matou]

I think this guy is full of sh**. JMO

 

[lonetraveler]

Why did a python kill 2 boys in N.B.? Experts explain 'extremely rare' attack. (ctvnews.ca)

There are more attacks than people think.

http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/wildlife/captive/constrictor-snake-attacks.pdf

 

[lonetraveler]

Watched a special on one of the animal channels not too long ago featuring the African Rock Python. They are known for being very aggressive and dangerous. The special covered the death of a little boy, awful. They are a problem as well as other constrictors in Florida.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090911-pythons-florida-giant-snakes.html

 

[lonetraveler]

LOL, I have to use feet and inches; the snake was reportedly 4.5 meters.

A meter equals 39 inches; a foot equals 12, so in 4.5 meters there are: 4.5 x 39 = 175.5 inches, divided by 12 inches to the foot = 14 feet, 7 1/2 inches

 

[lonetraveler]

From the news link above:

The pet store owner Jean-Claude Savoie says the creeping horror slithered into the apartment in Campbellton, New Brunswick, through the ventilation ducts this morning and crawled into the ceiling.

It somehow punched a hole in the ceiling and dropped onto the small boys from above. It then coiled around them and crushed them as they slept together on the floor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sleep-New-Brunswick-Canada.html#ixzz2b91RRQKs

Yeah. I don't think so.

There's something really wrong with this man's story. And Super-snake there really wasn't acting much like a snake actually acts. Except maybe in Hollywood.

I'm scratching my head as well here. Something just isn't jelling. Why didn't the snake swallow at least one of the boys. If he supposedly killed them because he scented food, why didn't he swallow one?

 

[matou]

I'm scratching my head as well here. Something just isn't jelling. Why didn't the snake swallow at least one of the boys. If he supposedly killed them because he scented food, why didn't he swallow one?

Why didn't the snake try and eat another animal in the store? Why did it kill BOTH kids instead of eating one it had killed? The owner found the snake in a hole in the room somewhere apparently, it couldn't have been that hungry.

 

[lonetraveler]

This is why Florida is petrified. Yet surprisingly (fingers crossed) we aren't hearing stories like this out of Florida. At least not yet.

http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/wildlife/captive/constrictor-snake-attacks.pdf

 

[wfgodot]

The ways of snakes are mysterious ways.