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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.

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TOPICS: Food; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: maul; pitbull; python; snake
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1 posted on 08/06/2013 7:09:05 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

The new Pit Bulls.


2 posted on 08/06/2013 7:09:39 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: arthurus

Somebody needs to be sued into oblivion....


3 posted on 08/06/2013 7:12:03 AM PDT by varmintman
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Double bind? How likely is that?


4 posted on 08/06/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: arthurus

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


5 posted on 08/06/2013 7:16:33 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender

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.


6 posted on 08/06/2013 7:21:43 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: arthurus
Live by the snake, die by the snake.

Guess the owner didn't feed them enough...although, snakes are snakes, aren't they?

FMCDH(BITS)

7 posted on 08/06/2013 7:22:40 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: arthurus

Horror!


8 posted on 08/06/2013 7:22:59 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: xzins

A specialist at the Montreal Zoo has said this is unheard of behavior for a python or other constrictor snake. Supposedly, if threatened, they will bite rather than constrict. They constrict only if they are attacking prey as possible food, which he thought extremely unlikely. I’m not saying the snake didn’t do it, only that as you say, there are some odd circumstances here.


9 posted on 08/06/2013 7:32:29 AM PDT by laconic
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To: arthurus
slithered through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment.

Did the thing slither up the wall in the shop to get to the ventilation ducts?

10 posted on 08/06/2013 7:34:11 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: vbmoneyspender
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.

11 posted on 08/06/2013 7:36:52 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: laconic

Hopefully, the autopsy is looking for signs of sexual abuse.

However, there’s always the possibility that the owner just wanted to see what would happen. More likely, though, if this is dirty, it means that he was silencing the boys for some reason. Sexual predation would be the most likely reason.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 7:38:53 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: arthurus

So come on down to Pythons-R-Us, conveniently located just two kilometres north of the Pat Boutette Rink, right next to Gord’s House of Poutine and The Touque Shack. Call, 555-SNAKE.


13 posted on 08/06/2013 7:39:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: arthurus

I hate snakes.


14 posted on 08/06/2013 7:46:10 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: xzins

:-)


15 posted on 08/06/2013 7:51:05 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: JoeProBono

We had a 5 foot long Yellow Rat snake that would catch and coil two mice while he caught his 3rd. He would then eat them. Not saying that this snake killed two at once, but it is possible.


16 posted on 08/06/2013 7:52:49 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: MissMagnolia; Salamander

See this post from the other thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3051431/posts?page=96#96

If I’d remembered your handle, I’d have pinged you, too.

Also, Salamander posted this on the other thread: (all that follows is his post)

From another forum


Here is something interesting that was posted up on cornsnakes.com. The store owners name is John-Claude Savoie....

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-no...-00134-eng.htm

Accused of sexual assault with a weapon, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, assault, uttering threats, and pointing a firearm

Could be a coincidence, however.


Yeah, there’s probably dozens of guys named Jean-Claude Savoie in that town.

/s

Also the store was formerly a “zoo” but lost it’s accreditation due to poor husbandry, the neighbors had a petition going to shut it down [again, poor husbandry] and the snake was illegal due to size regulations.

I’m sure this is a coincidence but this comes right before a vote is to be held for yet another draconian chunk of legislature.


17 posted on 08/06/2013 7:58:40 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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My original comment: I’m betting there’s more to this story.

Yuppers! In light of the additional info, I'm going to up the ante and say I'm thinking the snake (the one with scales) didn't do it .... waiting for those autopsy results.

18 posted on 08/06/2013 8:05:03 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: MissMagnolia

Yep. This is now a different story.


19 posted on 08/06/2013 8:11:46 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: arthurus

I don’t buy this story one bit. A Python is not going to attack a sleeping boy unless he plans to eat him. And two sleeping boys? I don’t think so. Those kids were murdered, and an autopsy should show it was done by hands or rope, not a snake. I doubt that a pet store would even have a Python large enough to attack a boy.

When I was a boy I used to handle pet store Pythons and Boas, even let them curl around my neck.


20 posted on 08/06/2013 8:14:28 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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