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NV-Snake Attacks Three-Year-Old Boy
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by tigers9 on January 22, 2009
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WHAT the hell was 18 foot snake doing with the little boy without barrier/cage????? Is there an end to human stupidity?
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http://www.kxnt.com/Snake-Attacks-Three-Year-Old-Boy/3706331
Local News
Posted: Thursday, 22 January 2009 6:09AM
Snake Attacks Three-Year-Old Boy
A three year old boy and his mother are recovering from a snake attack in Las Vegas. The eighteen foot Python snake attacked the young by while they were at their remodeled business. The snake wrapped itself around the boy when his mother slashed the snake with a knife. The snake was killed but the boy and the mother are fine.
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by tigers9 on January 22, 2009
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Pics, video on the link
http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=9713225
18 foot snake attacks child in Las Vegas
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 11:49 PM PST
A three-year-old boy and his mother are recovering from an attack by an eighteen foot snake in Las Vegas.
The family was taking care of the snake for some friends who were remodeling their business, where it is normally an attraction.
They are calling the attack a freak accident, because they do not know how the snake got loose.
Authorites agree, and credit the mom's quick thinking for stopping that accident from being a lot worse.
"It took all six of us to get that snake into custody. It made just a little loop on my hand while we were wrestling with it, and it felt like a vice. I've never felt anything like that," says Metro Sergeant, Steve Custer.
Custer and officer, Jerry Ybarra, have almost half a century of law enforcement experience between them, but even that could not prepare them for the snake attack they rushed to Tuesday.
"We go into bars after bad guys all the time, guns, never blink an eye, but we looked at that snake, and there was a lot of dancing and screaming going on," says Custer.
"Once animal control got there, we'd try to grasp him with her little tool that she has, and he would just hiss at us, and that was pretty terrifying," adds Ybarra.
The Reticulated Python was about eighteen feet long, far bigger than the three-year-old boy it had wrapped itself around.
But, maternal instinct proved to be far stronger than eighteen feet of muscle.
"The mom said that he was initially crying, then she came out and went for the knife. At one point, he did stop crying and was turning blue. Then, she was able to get the baby away from the snake," says Ybarra.
The knife wounds were so severe, the snake had had to be euthanized at Lied Animal Shelter, where the family's five other, much smaller, snakes were taken.
Fortunately, though, mother and child will be just fine.
"This was definitely a first for me," says Ybarra.
"I've seen and done some amazing things in my 36 years of being here, never come across this, ever," adds Custer.
Large snakes are allowed to be kept privately in Clark County, as long as they are not poisonous.
Metro says that no laws were broken, and that the attack can be likened to any other by a family pet, like a dog, for example.
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by Cro on January 22, 2009
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"Metro says that no laws were broken, and that the attack can be likened to any other by a family pet, like a dog, for example."
How often do pet dogs eat people ?
I hate that they call the "feeding behavior" of the snake an "attack."
Do we "attack" a plate of spagetti when we sit down to dinner ? I think not.
Best Regards
John Z
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by Phobos on January 23, 2009
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That was "Darwinism" in action. The snake as attempting to remove a young set of defective human genes from the pool passed on by the very stupid mother.
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by boaman1981 on February 11, 2009
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the fact is it is a retic it has a mouth accidents happen it sucks and people should shut up about how stupid the parent are or how the snake should not have been there i encourage owning them people have a super ficial fear for something most of witch are harmless i also encourage good husbandry an d believe you make a snake what it becoms
and other pets do way more damage than a snake even one of that magnitude
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