“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.
I’m always uncomfortable saying the government should make more laws against this that or the other.