[xzins]

Poking a hole in the ceiling is really strange to me. So is getting in the ventilation system of the house, and then using that ventilation system to get from the first floor to the second floor and then over the boys room. Then it gets out of the system somehow, and then it pokes a hole in the ceiling.

stretching credulity.

[RedMonqey]

Poking a hole in the ceiling is really strange to me.

Maybe not.

Considering some pretty shoddy ventilation work I've witnessed, if the snake was able to get out of the vent shaft(possiblity) ceiling panels are not meant to support any weight beyond itself and this was a LARGE snake.

Could easily snap through cheap pressboard or sheetrock.

[Uncle Chip]

‘It’s very, very puzzling’: Snake expert mystified by New Brunswick python attack

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/its-very-very-puzzling-snake-expert-mystified-by-new-brunswick-python-attack/article13610814/

Pythons seeking food “always bite first” before constricting their prey with their coils, said Johan Marais, raising the question of how the snake killed the brothers without anyone hearing screams in the apartment where they were having a sleepover.