Escaped Python Kills Two Young Children

[joseephuss]

http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/escaped-python-kills-children-130806.htm

Escaped Python Kills Two Young Children

A python strangled two children in their sleep in eastern Canada after escaping from a reptile shop and slithering through a ventilation shaft, police said Monday.

The two young boys, aged five and seven, were at a sleepover at a friend's apartment late Sunday in the small town of Campbellton.

The snake apparently escaped from a pet store specializing in exotic animals located on the floor below the apartment.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Sad, and senseless.

 

[adbutcher]

Snakes shouldn't be kept as pets, no animal that can't express an emotional connection should be kept as a pet.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Was reported earlier that the Snake had apparently escaped from it's tank previously but the owner, rather then fixing the tank, simply put the Snake back in the tank and did nothing to fix the problem.

This entire incident is completely senseless and totally avoidable.

My heart literally hurts for those boys. I just don't understand people sometimes.