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2008-08-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Python strangles student zookeeper
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Posted by Fred 2008-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 If you're going to be stupid, you've got to be TOUGH!
Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-28 07:40||   2008-08-28 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 with a bite from the Asian python on his left wrist

Was the python's name Hugo? Just asking.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-28 08:15||   2008-08-28 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess he's not getting credit for the internship.
Posted by Hellfish 2008-08-28 08:16||   2008-08-28 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I know grad students are cheap, but using them for snake food?
Posted by ed 2008-08-28 08:24||   2008-08-28 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 A python would have to be an import. Local snake would be a boa. Now, a 3 meter boa would be heavy enough to overwhelm most adults. But a 3 meter python is not really that big. Pythons generally have much thinner bodies than boas. It could happen, though, if the student was slight of build.

Our Columbian (red tail) boa is about 7 feet, and my 13 year old daughter handles it, but only under my supervision.
Posted by Iblis 2008-08-28 09:00||   2008-08-28 09:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Flunked.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-08-28 11:01||   2008-08-28 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 It seems to me that anyone who handles pythons should bring a knife along. But this kid probably figured that pythons behave exactly like the critters in cartoon programs.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-28 11:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2008-08-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd Flunk him straight off!
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2008-08-28 13:53||   2008-08-28 13:53|| Front Page Top

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