Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Sooz :) Those are the type of people I consider idiots, you just don't forget you have your snake crawling around the house especially if you have a baby! It most likely was a Python or Boa since they are Boids which means they constrict to kill their prey. I question why their snake was that hungry? Sounds like they didn't know how to take care of it. And it had to be a pretty big snake, believe it or not a snake will not kill anything it can't eat. IOW's if it's to big for it to swallow it will leave it alone. Unless it's an accidental killing, that happened in Houston where this idiot kid decided to ignore all the rules on feeding a snake and he had the snake around his neck and had picked up a chicken to feed the snake, you NEVER handle a snake after handling it's food, it is going by smell and think's your the food then, you must wash your hands. Well the snake smelled food and squeezed, the kid was found dead. Okay I say kid he was 19. What most people don't realize is snakes don't see like you and I, they see through heat shields and testing the air with their tongues., red and blue, red being a heat source which to them is prey and if they're hungry they will attack what they see is red. Sooz wrote: > Hello, > > A few years ago there was a case here in which a boa constrictor did in > fact kill a baby in it's crib. I don't remember details except that the > baby was asleep in its crib, it was maybe a year (?) old and the parents > found the snake wrapped around their baby in the crib. If memory serves > me right (?) I think that the snake had to be cut in order to get it to > release the body. I don't recall if the snake had escaped from it's > cage or what but I remember feeling so awful for that family. Charges > were brought against the parents, they were found guilty (I think) but > did not serve any time because of their loss. > > Tragic. > > Sooz -- Kathy E "I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow isn't looking too good for you either" http://members.delphi.com/kathylaw/ Law & Issues Mailing List http://pw1.netcom.com/~kathye/rodeo.html - Cowboy Histories http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2990/law.htm Crime photo's Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
