go to a reptile show in Kentucky and one of the vendors there does demonstrations locally for educational purposes. This is a story about what ignorance has done to him. Please be sure and click on the link below the picture and read the story. R.I.P POPCORN! :cry: http://houseofreptiles.150m.com/
Saddest story ever. I pity the kid, feel bad for the owner. I hope the snake will rest in peace. Poor Popcorn.
that kind of thing makes me want to slap the crap out of some people. the guy could have at least said he was sorry.
That kid is a douche. Sorry for the bad mouth but seriously that is the sickest and cruelest thing I have heard of in my 17 years on this planet.
i read that lastnight and it angered me so so much!! all the guy was doing was trying to educate the public about reptiles and this PUNK kid kills such a beautiful creature for no reason. its just straight ignorance that the father did nothing but tuck his tail between his legs and ran away!!! R.I.P. POPCORN
Seriously if I was his father I would do much more then say "this is why I can't bring you anywhere". I really don't think that family knows the the severity of what they kid did.
I don't think they really cared. I would have been so mad if that was me. At least the guy could have said sorry, offered up some money, something!! The thing is what is this kid going to do next? And someone brought up a good point...if it was a dog or a cat, the kid would be in juvie right now but because it is a snake, it seems to be "OK"
There are, depending where you live. Some idiot killed a lizard/gecko (I don't recall what now) around here a year or so ago, he was arrested and prosecuted under 'Buster's Law'. As I recall, he was mad at his kid for not doing something and took the gecko out of the tank and stepped on it on purpose, as punishment. The wife/kid's mother called it in and he was arrested on the spot, they didn't fool around and it is a felony.
I am surprised the guy didnt stop the kid and his dad. That is sad. I was in tears reading this. Such a wonderful snake killed by some ignorant idiot kid. His father is no better by just shrugging it off like his kid just stepped on a paper bag. I think they should find this kid and his father and get them to pay for the python and the care and requirments it took for the person to raise it {proaply totaling atleast couple thousand dollars} and then a huge pain and suffering for the caretaker. I would love to see what the parent thought after he had to draw from his son's college fund {if he even has one} to pay for his son's ignorance and him not being able to keep a eye on his son. I am sorry I vented but I think that was terribly thing to do to someone's animal. Even if he had no respect for snakes he shouldn't of shrugged it off. I hate spiders but if I was at a fair and my younger sister smashed a someones spider I would apologies several hundred times and try to pay them for what she has done.
ok so i think that 70% of the world population it doomed to ignorance and hate. seriously "lets kill reptiles they are scaley and wired" amoung other thing that the human population is killing like sharks, orangatans,chimps,gorillas, thats only what i can name off there like tons more i just cant remeber then at the moment. and thats just animals dont get me started on humans killing humans for being different (religion, race, ethnicity, tribe, sexuality) god peopl;e are so stupid!!!! ok rant is over sorry
thats ok, rant away, as far as im concerned this particular topic a rant is completely called for. it is extremely sad about this situation. i know how attached i am with my ball and to have some ignorant kid kill something so misunderstood is just horrible. id be so devistaed if my ball got hurt or killed. i dunno, but there are so many rules and regulations about cats and dogs being mistreated there should be one for exotics too. no different.
I agree with the exotic pet law. It should be the same as cats & dogs. I know everyone doesn't like snakes, just like there are animals I am not fond of but WTF!!! This kid is crazy. I have 2 young boys who have always been taught to treat animals with respect. My oldest son is very into animals and if he thinks an animal is being hurt he gets upset. I have even had to stop my car in the middle of the road and move turtles out of the way. Not that I mind but this is coming from a 8 year old boy. And he has had me do this for several years so it's not a new thing. The thing is it makes you wonder what kind of a home this boy is being brought up in. I would still be so pissed that somebody did that to one of my snakes.
Yea I live in Illinois and I think there is a law something like that in place at the moment. It is a great thing honestly to stop all this cruel behavior towards these creatures. I just hate how people think reptiles should be treated less equally then any other species.
I have just read the article, what that child did was horrific!!! and the father, well...... It really does just show how ignorant some people are, still, even in this day and age!! I hope he is found and is punished, may by then they will learn something about the respect that Popcorn deserved. What a beautiful snake. R.I.P. Popcorn :cry:
Here's an article from my local paper, it's about the law I linked earlier. There are laws out there, animal cruelty laws are in every state, they just aren't enforced. People either aren't charged initially for whatever reason or charges end up getting reduced/thrown out...it's unfortunate but it's the way the legal system works.
Tell you what; that kid would've walked out of there with a bit more coloring than he went in. Blakc and blue, specifically.
I would have steped on that kid. evil ingorant little #%@^ ^#%$ ^%$#.. poor popcorn, thats a horrible thing to happen to a freindly animal like that.
Don't read this if you are of a sensitive nature, disturbing And this is why I advocate hitting your children when they **** up severely! If I had done something like that when I was a kid my parents would have murdered me on the spot! That was absolutely sickening. I've experienced animal cruelty in some of its worst forms. There is a psycho who used to roam our neighborhood (do not know who he is), his favourite victims were usually small caged animals like rabbits and guinea pigs. I came home from school on more than one occassion to discover my pigs with their spines snapped, padlocks cut from the hutches so definitely the work of a human. My neighbors found their rabbits dead and vet autopsy revealed that every single bone in their bodies had been shattered, most likely by the murderer smashing them against the hutch non stop. Their next rabbit had its head torn off. Happened to a family 2 suburbs away from us as well, they wrote to us after the police recommended we tell all in our local paper. This is why I no longer keep guinea pigs and they no longer have rabbits, just 2 very loud dogs who snarl like crazy (ones a Border collie which makes it much more impressive than the cavalier spaniel lol) when anyone goes near their backyard. Our 3 cats still go outside cos they don't go near strangers plus they have claws and are more than happy to use 'em. My 2 pythons live in my room in their tanks. RIP Popcorn and I hope that kid gets locked up or his head stomped in.
