Posted on 08/05/2013 2:12:20 PM PDT by xzins
Two children died after a python got into an apartment in Campbellton, N.B., RCMP say.
"Police are investigating two sudden deaths of two young boys," Const. Julie Rogers-Marsh said Monday.
It's believed the snake escaped from a pet store called Reptile Ocean. The victims were boys aged five and seven. They were visiting a friend in the apartment above the store, police said in a statement released Monday.
Initial information indicates the snake got into the ventilation system and then into the apartment upstairs.
"It's believed the two boys were strangled by the snake," she said, noting that autopsies are scheduled for tomorrow in Saint John.
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My brother had a ball python that once in awhile would do a closed mouth strike on the mice.
[He preferred them live.]
The very stunned mouse would then be grabbed and smacked into things the way you describe before getting ‘the squeeze’.
“Buddy” was a very weird snake.
[He’s the one who tore several rear view mirrors off the car and then wouldn’t let us have them back.]
OMG...my little Lesser BP used to do that when I switched her to larger dead mice.
She’d take her snout and just pound it like a hammer.
She’s living with a breeder now.
Hope he’s having all the “fun” of getting her to eat on feeding night.
My snakes, I just thaw out their chow to room temp and toss it in their houses.
They eat when they’re good and ready.
Lazy, spoiled things.
Three of the Boas “play” with their food for 20+ minutes.
They carry it around, put it down and nuzzle it, throw it in their water bowl and “drown it”, lay on top of it and take a nap..and finally swallow it.
Weirdos.
I love ‘em.
:)
“[He’s the one who tore several rear view mirrors off the car and then wouldn’t let us have them back”
To the victor go the spoils.
:]
First time we watched Buddy do that, we were horrified.
It was almost as if the snake was like “I’ll show you ALL!”
He did try to put “the squeeze” on me, but it didn’t quite work.
Pretty much!
Heading out for the night.
See you tomorrow or so.
Still liked Buddy trying to squeeze me.
It was pretty pathetic.
“Pal, isn’t that somewhat of an over-reach for you?”
He’d look up at me like, “Can’t a guy at least TRY?”
He and I eventually had an understanding where he wouldn’t try to squeeze me, and I wouldn’t “squeeze” back.
[But he didn’t stop liking to coil up inside my shirt like a scaly belly lump..]
LOL, totally. But it’s a passive-aggressive type of crush.
“Oftentimes, store owners live over their shops, and oftentimes landlords rent one floor to a business and the next floor to residents.”
I care not what is “oftentimes” done. A pet store that sells exotic pets has no place - should not be permitted - in the same building as residential units, much less right below them.
The store owner’s kid was in the room and left totally unharmed.
Things that make you say “Hmmm”.
The ceiling was also caved in where the snake fell through.
It was a largish African Rock Python.
There was absolutely no sign of any struggle where the two dead boys were.
Constrictors definitely create a “struggle” when wrapping, whether the victim is asleep or not.
Herpers in that area who are privy to first hand info are bringing in new “discrepancies” minute by minute.
If the coroner is worth a crap, somebody’s getting arrested.
The local snake store was below apartments for over a decade and nothing ever happened, despite lots of large albino Burms and alligators running loose on the floor of the store.
The guy who owned said store lost a young Boa before he moved out of a house and the people who lived there after him never even knew about it.
Nine years later, he moved back in and during renovations, he found the now-9 year old Boa fat and sassy, having lived between the walls/floor spaces all that time, feasting on the birds who invaded the attic.
Ball Pythons are funny snakes.
They’re terrified of their own shadows but once in a while you get one that actually enjoys being out and about.
Then you get to see their clownish personality.
Boas *always* want to be out and with you, often going to crazy extremes to convince you to take them out and then fighting like a wrestling contortionist to avoid going back in.
It once took me almost a half hour to push Bob back in his condo since as soon as I’d get his rear end in, I had to go to the other end and push his front end back in, only to feel his tail zip out and wrap around my leg so I couldn’t push him anymore...lather, rinse, repeat.
:)
See? She just wants to cuddle and be cute in that dungeon...........with handcuffs
:-)
nothing you added changes my view that such stores have no place in the same building as residential units
I imagine that nothing I could say would change your point of view, ever.
That’s fine with me.
Free [more or less/temporarily] country and all that.
I agree. My BS meter is pegging.
I just hope the killer of those poor little kids doesn’t go free because people have already made up their minds.
Amen.
The guy is saying that the python, 14-16 feet long, was always considered vicious. It got into the ventilation system, went overhead into the apartment and above the boys, PUNCHED A HOLE IN THE CEILING, and dropped through the ceiling and crushed them.
I think the guy has some distinguishing characteristics of a child predator.
I am now skeptical.
There seems to be no doubt that the python was in the apartment, because it seems to have been captured there.
That doesn’t mean the snake owner didn’t intentionally release the snake into their room.
I’d check them for sexual abuse.
My wife told me she heard on the news a while ago it weighed at least 120 pounds. That was from either FOX or CNN I don’t know what she was watching. Ceiling type would have a lot to do with it I’d say.
“then fighting like a wrestling contortionist to avoid going back in.”
That was Buddy with me, all the time.
He did discover he could open the screening on top of his house one fine day.
So out he goes.
Hanging out on top of his enclosure was BORING, se what does he do?
Dangles off the side and drops down to say hello to one of the cats.
He did this ridiculous slither motion that I’d never seen or any other ballpython do.
It looked like he was trying to not touch the floor.
The cat, however, was unimpressed.
When the reporter said “strangled”, I said BS as pythons constrict and you die not from strangulation but from circulatory arrest.
True. I have a feeling that this is case is going to get very ugly very soon.
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