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NY woman dead from snake bite?
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by wls967 on June 16, 2011
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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/16/bite-from-pet-snake-suspected-in-death-ny-woman/
PUTNAM LAKE, N.Y. – New York authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was possibly bitten by one of the many pet snakes she kept in her home with her live-in boyfriend.
Putnam County Sheriff Donald Smith says 56-year-old Aleta Stacey was found dead by her boyfriend Tuesday night in their Putnam Lake home, where they kept about 75 snakes — many of them venomous — in glass aquariums.
The boyfriend told authorities he suspected a poisonous, 5-foot-long African black mamba had bitten Stacey because the securing locks on the snake's pen were off. Investigators found what appeared to be bite marks on the victim's forearm.
An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday night, but results could take several days. The snakes were removed from the home and taken to the Bronx Zoo.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/16/bite-from-pet-snake-suspected-in-death-ny-woman/#ixzz1PS3L7OTT
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by AquaHerp on June 16, 2011
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Tragic. This is what happens when we pass these bans and drive the hobby underground.These knee-kerk reactions to problems that don't exist only serve to create real and truly deadly problems.
Very sad when people are too scared to get help.
DH
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by nietzsche on June 16, 2011
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That's terrible. Is there any antivenom for black mambas available in NY? It's interesting that they say the black mamba is the world’s most poisonous (read venomous?) snake. Are they referring to the speed with which the venom acts? They mentioned it in the article. I thought that when strictly speaking in terms of virulence, of the land snakes it was generally considered that m. lepidotus was the most venomous?
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by tj on June 17, 2011
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"This is what happens when we pass these bans and drive the hobby underground.These knee-kerk reactions to problems that don't exist only serve to create real and truly deadly problems.
Very sad when people are too scared to get help."
I didn't read anywhere that she didn't have a permit and was keeping illegally or that she didn't try to get help. You're jumping the gun on both accounts.
There's more than a few people that are permitted to keep venomous in NY.....68 was the last I heard.
And, yes. Unless something has chaged, there is mamba AV in NY. Not too far from her.....although, an hour is far enough.
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by ChunkHead on June 17, 2011
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I'm sure if she had a permit, or, at the very least some legit affiliation, we'd have heard something. Hopefullly we hear more, but i'll bet she was permitted and went underground when NY went ban crazy.
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by FSB on June 17, 2011
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She died happy - not in some nursing home with strange people wiping her ass. No one else was hrt, and she seems to have had the presence of mind to shit the doors of the cage and contain the snake before she collapsed. If you choose to work with venomous animals - or large cats, or explosives, or firearms, or anything else "dangerous," then you take the risk that goes with it. The most important consideration is that no innocent bystanders get hurt.
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by FSB on June 17, 2011
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A couple of unfortunate typos in the last post - forgot this wasn't Facebook..... Should have been, "SHUT" the doors, obviously (I hope).
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by AquaHerp on June 23, 2011
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I am not going simply off of this story. Perhaps I have more insight?
Regardless, it is in fact illegal to own venomous snakes in New York. It has been for 5 or 6 years now. The county where she lived has had a ban on them for over 15 years.
If she wasn't helped and nobody knew until she was found dead......obviously she did not seek immediate help.
DH
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by tj on June 25, 2011
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"I am not going simply off of this story."
Sure you were. You may not be now that some additional info came out, but you were going simply off that story.
"Perhaps I have more insight?"
Do you? Then perhaps you can explain why the boyfriend hasn't been charged?
"Regardless, it is in fact illegal to own venomous snakes in New York. It has been for 5 or 6 years now."
You must have skimmed over the part where I said there are permitted venomous keepers in NY. It's been far longer than 5 or 6 years that it has been illegal to keep venomous in NY. That's nothing new. Prior to the "new" law, keeper's where given VRI's by the DEC. Those same keeper's were given renewal forms to be handed in before the date the law came into effect. Those that got the renewals into special license's were grandfathered in and permitted to legally keep venomous snakes.
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