I second that! Here’s another ill-chosen PET KILLS owner story:
http://www.anapsid.org/nyburm.html
According to the New York Times, 19-year old Grant Williams of 365 East 183rd Street Bronx died as the result of an attack by his 13 foot long Burmese Python which may have mistaken him as food.
The above death was in NYC in 1996
Another was in CO in 1993: http://www.anapsid.org/coloburm.html
“The recent Colorado case of a human death caused by a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus; 20 July 1993) ...
he victim was a 15-year-old male, 152 cm [5’] tall, weighing 43 kg [95lb]. (details of injuries found at autopsy: both numerous tooth impressions and evidence of strangulation)
“The snake was 336 cm [11’2”] total length, and weighed 24 kg [53lb]. Incidentally, almost all estimates of the snake’s weight presented by the media were above 27 kg and ranged as high as 54 kg. The only accurate weight had been recorded by Officer Steven Paxton soon after the fatality, but few news writers quoted him, preferring to use the larger, exaggerated numbers. ...
“Perhaps the most significant point to emerge from this Colorado case is the fact that a 24kg python, modest in size by comparison with full grown specimens of this and several other species, was able to kill a healthy 43kg adolescent human. This will come as no surprise to experienced herpetologists, but it might be startling to people who have grown unjustifiably complacent with their now mature pythons that have been raised since hatching.”