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Case closed in Scotsman's mysterious death [Little Rock snake death]
Associated Press | June 3, 2004 | AVA THOMAS BENSON

Posted on 06/03/2004 6:20:39 PM PDT by HAL9000

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"we're not investigating it."

Just like the Jerry Parks case, eh?

1 posted on 06/03/2004 6:20:39 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Didn't Bubba buy a home in Scotland?


2 posted on 06/03/2004 6:23:10 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: HAL9000

this Scot, I believe, was the lead cabinet contractor (Construction was outsourced!!) for the clintoon Liebrary? I think that also covers the secured areas? Maybe bill now thinks himself as pharoe and leaving no witness to the internal workings of his tomb behind?


3 posted on 06/03/2004 6:27:08 PM PDT by steplock (http://www.gohotsprings.com)
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To: HAL9000; archy

Not suspicious at all. No sirree.


4 posted on 06/03/2004 6:27:20 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: HAL9000

How dumb. This should be investigated more thoroughly.


5 posted on 06/03/2004 6:27:55 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

He had previously taken delivery of other shipments of poisonous snakes. WHERE ARE THE OTHER SNAKES????


6 posted on 06/03/2004 6:30:35 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple

One will be bedding down with Mary Matalin, tonight.


7 posted on 06/03/2004 6:33:02 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: HAL9000
Police are awaiting the results of toxicology reports to see if they can determine what killed Wales, whose body was covered in vomit when found by a patrol officer.

Was it his own vomit?

Derek: he died. uh...he choked on..the ac- the official explanation was he choked on vomit.

Nigel: It was actually, was actually someone else's vomit. It's not....

David: It's ugly.

Nigel: You know. There's no real....

Derek: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't have the facilities at Scotland Yard....

David: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph

Nigel: You can't really dust for vomit.


8 posted on 06/03/2004 6:33:33 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: Miss Marple

Holy moly, this is bizarre...


9 posted on 06/03/2004 6:33:56 PM PDT by Judith Anne (HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
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To: spetznaz

pong


10 posted on 06/03/2004 6:34:01 PM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: Paul Atreides

"He said he believes the reason Wales had the snakes shipped to Little Rock is because it is not illegal in Arkansas to possess the snakes."


All sorts of vipers have come out of Arkansas.


11 posted on 06/03/2004 6:36:01 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Judith Anne

[It is even more bizarre than you know.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1137236/posts

Today: May 17, 2004 at 11:05:46 PDT

Driver Finds Four Poisonous Snakes in Box ["So I went over and kicked the box!"]


ASSOCIATED PRESS



LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A curious pickup truck driver spotted a box in the grass marked "Live venomous reptile" east of downtown and stopped to take a look.

"When you see something like that, you want to look and see what it is," Paul Mitchell of Little Rock said of his Friday afternoon discovery. "I went over and kicked the box."

The electrician looked inside and found a cloth bag slithering into the form of a cobra ready to strike.

"I was like, 'Hot dog! That thing is big!'" Mitchell said.

Mitchell grabbed up the box, put it in the bed of his truck and took it to the Little Rock Zoo.

"I was just going to take it back to work and kill it, but I figure cobras aren't indigenous to Arkansas," Mitchell said. "I knew the zoo would have a snake handler."

Randal Berry, the zoo's reptile keeper, took the snakes in out of concern for public safety. He said the zoo doesn't usually take in animals.

Berry said the cobra was very aggressive as he pulled it from the sack, repeatedly rearing its hooded head. Also inside the box were a 14-inch-long twig snake; an East African bright green mamba that measured 6 feet long, and a 4-foot black mamba. All are highly venomous and there is no antivenin in Arkansas.

Berry said the snakes were in good condition and estimated that, together, they were worth about $1,000.

No one knows where the snakes came from. The box had no markings other than "Live venomous snakes." Berry said no snakes were missing from the zoo.

Cindy Dawson, assistant city attorney and zoo docent, guessed that the snakes came into the city illegally. Keeping, selling, possessing or maintaining venomous reptiles is illegal, though some exceptions are made for education, research and entertainment.

City officials said they're hopeful all the snakes are accounted for, but that they would remind any animal control workers that calls reporting any exotic snakes could be serious and not pranks.

Zoo officials said they haven't decided what they're going to do with the snakes, including the seething cobra.

"I don't want it here," Berry said with a laugh. "He's not a nice guy."


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: COBRA; GARRICKWALES; SNAKES; YIKES; Click to Add Keyword


12 posted on 06/03/2004 6:42:15 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: HAL9000
It is not illegal in Arkansas to possess snakes.
13 posted on 06/03/2004 6:46:50 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Or elect one.


14 posted on 06/03/2004 6:50:21 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: Paul Atreides
Didn't Bubba buy a home in Scotland?

No, but the dead man was staying at the same hotel where Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick.

15 posted on 06/03/2004 6:52:43 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

The only town in Arkansas spookier than Little Rock is Pine Bluff.


16 posted on 06/03/2004 6:54:03 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

That was a fascinating thread! Thank you. ;-D


17 posted on 06/03/2004 7:02:55 PM PDT by Judith Anne (HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
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To: HAL9000

Gin onybody speir at ye
O' then wha cam' awa',
Ye can tell them plain, and plain eneuch,
They sleep in Arkansas.
Wi' a dirrum do, dirrum do, daddy dirrum dey.


18 posted on 06/03/2004 7:03:11 PM PDT by ScottFromSpokane (Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
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To: HAL9000

This got ARKANCIDE writ all over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


19 posted on 06/03/2004 7:04:47 PM PDT by dennisw ("Allah FUBAR!")
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To: HAL9000

Not sure what he died from but whatever it was it was an accident........

Womans last name is known but we aren't sure what it is.

Man and snakes appear to have been taking drugs .........

Man shows up from Scotland to get a shipment of snakes from FL and deliver them to a local resident..........

Right there is NOTHING to see here or look into NOTHING .......

Am I the only one wondering if this is a drug ring that involved smuggling in snake boxes and may or may not involve the local authorities who don't want anything investigated at all ?

Little Rock -- Home of Slick Willie.


20 posted on 06/03/2004 7:07:21 PM PDT by festus
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