Hopefully it won't wake up one night wanting a midnight snack!
Posted on 11/27/2007 6:06:44 PM PST by WFTR
Usually it's a cuddly teddy bear or a favourite action figure that kids need before they can get to bed. But not for Cambodian six-year-old Sambath Uon; he needs "Lucky", his trusty six-metre long python, before he can sleep.
"I love the python like my sister," Sambath said.
"All my friends are jealous of her."
Sambath first encountered the snake when he was three months old, and Lucky was only 50cm.
His parents didn't like to see Lucky with Sambath, and tried to take her back into the forest three times - only to find that Lucky would keep returning to her child owner.
Sambath's mother, Kim Kanara, said: "We would find it asleep next to Sambath. They have slept together every night for the past six years."
"She is a member of the family now. We shelter, feed, bathe and even pray to her."
(Excerpt) Read more at livenews.com.au ...
Proves that sometimes words like “stupid” are woefully inadequate.
I bet his nickname ten years from now will be “Lunch”...
I think they need to change the boy’s name to “Lucky”.
He hasn’t been eaten yet....
Indian for 'appetizer'.
You just need an adverb. How about insanely stupid?
Well, some cultures went to the moon! Some cultures... well, you know...
Yeah, I can’t get to sleep either without that good old 8 ft 2X4 right next to me/s
Next story about this child: Darwin Award.
Why wouldn’t you? Because it might eat the kid?
ugh
I sleep with a Trouser Snake very nearly as large; in fact, I never go anywhere without it - heh, heh, heh...
yea, I usually don’t go to bed with a python but sometimes I wake up with one! lol
Hopefully it won't wake up one night wanting a midnight snack!
COME RIDE THE SNAKE!
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