Uncle Bill's faces suit after python bit a boy

indystar ^ | 11-dec-2003 | Vic Ryckaert

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An Indianapolis mother is suing Uncle Bill's Pet Center after a 10-foot-long Burmese python bit her son.

Robin Post says her son Travis was also strangled by the snake in the May 2002 incident at the store, 4829 W. 38th St.

[gg188]

That is really stupid---allowing wild animals around children like that. I mean, that would be as stupid as, say, allowing homosexuals to lead a boyscout camping trip!

[CurlyDave]

According to an animal control report, Simms, 32, allowed Travis to hold the snake and stepped away from the creature to talk to the boy's mother. It was wrapped around Travis' shoulders when it locked its teeth into him, according to the report.

The mother was right there & talking to the snake owner.

Why is it negligent for the pet store & the pet owner to let the snake bite the boy, but not negligent on the part of the boy's mother?

[CalvaryJohn]

My brother owned a 15 foot, 180 pound Burmese. It was the most gentle tempered snake you've ever seen- until you threw a rabbit into the cage. I'll bet the boy smelled like food. The owner should have known better.

[Arpege92]

I think the mother should share in some of the blame here!

[Itzlzha]

My brother owned a 15 foot, 180 pound Burmese. It was the most gentle tempered snake you've ever seen- until you threw a rabbit into the cage. I'll bet the boy smelled like food. The owner should have known better.

Or the snake may have been shedding it's skin, and it's eyes were clouded...that's when Reticulars are REAL dangerous to handle...even for the owner! It doesn't see well and strikes at everything!

[cmsgop]

I had 2 6ft Reticulated Pythons, they were harmless but I would not leave them alone with a young boy or girl unsupervised if I was a Pet Business Owner. Nor for a second,liability and all that.

[billorites]

"The snake suddenly attacked him, coiled around him and tried to kill him..."

Bitch, bitch, bitch.

These losers find fault with everything.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Maybe next time he shouldn't cuddle with the bunnies before visiting the snakes...hmmmm

[billorites]

A friend of mine, a Hasidic Jew, kept snakes in her bedroom.

She had constrictors, pit vipers, the works...

She loved them and they loved her.

I found it incongrous, somehow, that this daughter of Holocaust survivors should have a bedroom full of snakes.

Meanwhile, my friend, who always dressed in long sleeves, full dresses and very proper...

Complained that she couldn't get a date.

[Maceman]

Geez. My 5-year old daughter was climbing something she shouldn't have been climbing at her private school the night before Thanksgiving.

She fell off and broke her arm in two places.

Maybe its my fault for sending her to a school where she has the freedom to do stuff like this. Maybe it was just a fluke (in the orthopedist's office, I met a four-year-old who got a similar injury at home trying to jump into her mother's arms from a rocking chair).

In any event, I just can't imagine suing the school.

What is with every one?

[Ken H]

Meanwhile, my friend, who always dressed in long sleeves, full dresses ...

Did she wear a boa with that?

[Imal]

Attorneys for the snake could not be reached for comment.

[skinkinthegrass]

Maybe next time he shouldn't cuddle with the bunnies before visiting the snakes...hmmmm

I suspect that is exactly what happen. Next time, wash your hands and/or don't play w/ the snake food...KID!

[skinkinthegrass]

Did she wear a boa with that?

hahaha.. :)

[GladesGuru]

Attorney Hoover is just living up to his name. he's just attempting to "hoover" up some money. Given the facts, particularly that diligent Mommie allowed her child to handle rabbits first and then allowed the snake to be placed around her son's neck, what we have here is parental ignornace resulting in an injury to her child.

How either the snake owner (who clearly wouldn't have allowed the child near the snake while it smelled of the snake's usual and customary food), or the pet store owner could be sued is both beyond me, AND a good reason for disbarrment of such laywers.

Cases like this, filed by lawyers like this, have resulted in Americans viewing lawyers as no more honest than used car salesmen.

[ALinArleta]

Americans viewing lawyers as no more honest than used car salesmen.

That is the worst,lowest,meanist thing I have ever heard anyone say. about honest used car salesmen. Shame on you.
Compaired to Lawyers, used car salesmen are SaintS.

[GladesGuru]

My apologies for taking up oxygen, but I was merely reporting the results of the polls.

Generally, when I am dealing with a mouth breathing bottom feeder, it is a catfish, not some Liberal lawyer.

Still, there are some lawyers who are conservatives. Pacific Legal Foundation has a bunch, Perry Pendly has more at Mountain States Legal, G.B and the Joneses have some at Paragon Foundation, and there are many more legal foundations devoted to the preservation of the Constitution, not its destruction.

[Lancey Howard]

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[Ditter]

Physical pain & mental anguish" would just be part of what I would experience if a snake bit me & tried to choke me. I would have a heart attack & die on the spot but then I wouldn't be holding the vile creature in the first place.