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The sort of publicity we don't need
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by 23bms on September 15, 2006
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The following appeared on the NY Times web site under their "News Index From The Associated Press" banner.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Poisonous-Snakes.html
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Bummer... But at least they aren't going to kill them.
jrb
Live Poisonous Snakes Found at N.Y. Fire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 15, 2006
Filed at 5:17 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Firefighters responding to a burning New York City home found more than smoke and flames. Inside a set of plastic containers, they discovered five poisonous snakes.
State officials on Friday were investigating the origin of the three venomous copperheads and two timber rattlesnakes, which were confiscated by police and taken to an animal rescue facility following Wednesday's fire.
Venomous snakes are illegal to own without a license in New York.
Richard Gentles, a spokesman for Animal Care & Control of New York City, said the organization would be looking for a new home for the reptiles, perhaps at a licensed sanctuary. They might also be released into the wilderness in an area where others of their species are normally found.
''They are beautiful and they are in excellent condition, and they are healthy,'' he said.
A spokeswoman for the state's Department of Environmental Conservation said the agency is trying to learn who owned the snakes and whether that person was licensed to have them.
Timber rattlesnakes, which can grow up to four feet (1.20 meters) long, are found wild in pockets of New York State and southern New Jersey, but are considered a threatened species. Copperheads can be up to three feet (1 meter) long and are also native to New York.
Details of the fire were not immediately known.
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by snakeguy101 on September 15, 2006
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that's not the worst publisity that i've heard, i'm more concerned when they press has something on how horrible these snakes are or on a snake "attacking" and killing a cute kid or something like that, this one was very logical and not bad at all, there was even a quote in it on how beautiful these snakes were.... that does not sound like bad press to me.
best regards,
chris hartmann
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by 23bms on September 15, 2006
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Agreed. However, I didn't say it was the WORST. I merely said it was the sort of publicity we don't need. The NY Times is not a local paper. It is read NATION WIDE. Another moron added fuel to a fire that will bury us all.
jrb
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by 23bms on September 15, 2006
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My seventh grade English teacher just rose from his grave and started beating me with a stick.
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by rickyduckworth on September 15, 2006
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that publicity is about as good as it gets....the snakes were healthy, IN containers and not out roaming around, the authorities didn't trip out or jump to conclusions, etc
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by Buzztail1 on September 15, 2006
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They could still find out that the owner was completely licensed and legal. It says that they don't know that yet.
In fact, that is probably the most positive spin on a venomous snake story that I have seen in a very long time.
Bravo to the press for not overdramatizing and demonizing us in their story.
Karl
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by rickyduckworth on September 16, 2006
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whose point? your "point" or the article's "point"
other than calling them poisonous snakes, it was conservatively written, by someone who seems to either like snakes or just doesn't hate them but respects them.....even the fact they were captive was never treated as something bad...made it sound more like a coincidence they were found and didn't even insinuate that if the fire had been worse, they could have gotten loose and wreaked havok on NYC, etc.....sure, it's not as good as "snake saves newborn infant from black plague by killing infected rat bedside" but it's better than 99% of the reptile related stories out there
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by rickyduckworth on September 16, 2006
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and it should have been:
other than calling them poisonous, it was correctly as well as conservatively written..........
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