The story is short but I find the last sentence, a comment by a pet store owner who took the snake in to be outrageous.
From FoxNews.com:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 15-month-old boy suffered minor injuries when he was attacked by a 4-foot ball python in a Mecklenburg County park here.
Christine Abdelmonem had taken her son, Adam, to get a better look at some ducks waddling nearby in Freedom Park on Monday. As she lowered the boy to the ground, she felt a tug and saw the snake wrapped around his leg.
She screamed for help and two maintenance workers rushed over. One hit the nonvenomous snake with a shovel before trapping it in a bucket, said Karla Thornhill of Mecklenburg Park and Recreation.
Adam was treated at Carolinas Medical Center for bite marks on his leg.
“When I pulled it off, he was fine,” Abdelmonem said. “I wasn’t.”
John Calchera, a pet store owner in nearby Pineville, took in the constrictor snake. He thinks it may have been abandoned by a pet owner and that it won’t survive being beaten.
“It’s a totally harmless thing,” he said. “Why attack a harmless thing?”
Ummm …. let’s think about it. That harmless thing bit a 15 month old child! Did that moron expect them to just pet the creepy snake until it turned loose? Stories like this make me want to sharpen my hoe.
Yep, definitely time to bring out my “Snake-B-Gone” hoe.
Why kill a harmless thing? Because it’s a snake! Duh.
Thank you guys! I love animals, but snakes just don’t make the love list. In reality, I hate those suckers. Twice since we’ve lived here in WY, we’ve come within a couple feet of getting bit by rattlers. One of them ended up dead and the rattles hang by our computer desk.
The other one, Ted and Harley were hiking and by the time Ted saw it, he had to jump over the top of it. He had been watching too much animal planet or something because he let it live. Don’t worry, I chewed him out and we agree, all rattlers must die when they show their ugly mugs to us.
On a side note, the snake does not even have to be venomous for me to hate it.
I should ask Ted to hunt on the desktop computer for the pictures he took of his snake then update the post with it. Yeah, he took pictures and didn’t kill it. Oh well, now his time watching Animal Planet is limited.
What a nimrod! I would have killed the snake!
Obviously it was NOT a harmless thing! Someone need to explain to the guy that harmless means it does NOT harm.
Tammi ~ Snakes don’t bother me in the least. I laughed until I ALMOST peed my pants when my hubby disassembled an 8 inch garden snake with his 9mm.
If you want to see me jump on a chair and shriek, just let loose a handful of cockroaches!
Hi CavMom,
I hate to admit it, but I really am a sissy when it comes to spiders, bugs, and snakes — and I grew up in the country! Tell your hubby congrats on disassembling that garden snake.
I know it had it coming!
In my defense, I think people would be shocked at certain things that do not gross me out or bother me, as stated, I grew up in the country.
I grew up outside a tiny town in Wyoming. (Aren’t they all?
) Critters were merely free toys to us, trees were for climbing, and shoes were optional unless we were going to church or school.
My brothers used to have fun with bugs and spiders, but I want nothing to do with them. We used to catch snakes and use them for practical jokes all the time. One time I put a 3 ft snake in the washing machine and forgot about it. The next morning we were all awakened by my Mom’s screams.
Hi LifeLemons,
I almost missed you up there! Agreed, I would have killed the snake too.
This pet store genius seems to represent the PETA crowd, the ones who care about animals and disregard children!
I saw a shirt a while back that had PETA on it in big letters. On closer inspection there were smaller letters that read: People Eating Tasty Animals.
CavMom,
Grew up in Wyoming? Good job!
The snakes in the washer story remind me of the time some guys that worked with my dad thought they’d play a practical joke on him and put a salamander in his lunch box. Well, lunch was over and the next person to open the lunch box was my mom about 6:00 am the next morning when she was preparing to pack his lunch for the day. Her screaming and colorful language woke us up early for school that day.
Hi Sam,
Hey - thanks for dropping in.
Yes, a person could pretty much do unlimited posting regarding the stupidity and hypocrisy of PETA.
Gee, thanks, Tammi. Now I’m all creeped out and, thanks to that comment by the pet store owner, several brain cells of mine have committed suicide. I’m supposed to start law school and that comment at the end fried out multiple neural pathways.
Is this guy volunteering his leg to the “Feed the poor starving snake” society? Or is it just that he believes in 8th trimester abortions?
Hell, he makes me not believe in evolution. Someone that dumb should surely have been weeded out of the gene pool long ago. Anyone have any chlorine?
This is beyond me that anyone would say something so entirely ridiculous.
Hi Bridget,
Exactly! Not that I believe in evolution, but that guy’s remark is definitely stupidity gone to seed!
Hi MZ,
Thanks for stopping in. I know you are very busy and it’s so difficult to make the rounds to all the blogs.
Furthermore, if the snake is suffering from being attacked they should just chop its head off and be done with it.