Is there not some law against these things?
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jgasm wrote:
ennis fears nothing.
Not true. Ennis fears becoming a COBOL programmer, or having to write code in Plain English.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Ennis fears becoming a COBOL programmer
fear the power of the DIVISION.
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i disagree. ennis fears nothing. snakes. spaghetti code. you name it.
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Wow, I am like the computer programming Chuck Norris! Actually, I have an affinity for snakes so I definitely would not be upset if my neighbor loosed a King Cobra. However, I would definitely wish to know about it immediately. Living in the United States there is only one snake who's single bite is likely to kill an adult man so we take different precautions than in the Jungle so prompt notification would be nice. Or even pre-notification. I usually introduce my neighbors to my doberman as a matter of proper procedures. I don't want them to ever panic if she escapes. (My dog is an incredible escape artist)
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Hi, I read this news in yahoo news. Apparently a snake has broken loose from its owner's house in Kent UK. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080805/tuk-warning-as-6ft-snake-breaks-loose-45dbed5.html Sorry: I am having really a hell of time trying to stick in a link in the message here. This must be frightening for the neighbours. I really feel the owner should be prosecuted for potential manslaughter!!!! Is there not some law to protect people from these sort of things, in the UK? - i.e. how can the law allow people to pet dangerous animals/reptiles like these?? Really worrying!!!!
code_wiz wrote:
how can the law allow people to pet dangerous animals/reptiles like these??
Would you include children? I know some pretty dangerous children, not to mention adults! Marc
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Hi, I read this news in yahoo news. Apparently a snake has broken loose from its owner's house in Kent UK. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080805/tuk-warning-as-6ft-snake-breaks-loose-45dbed5.html Sorry: I am having really a hell of time trying to stick in a link in the message here. This must be frightening for the neighbours. I really feel the owner should be prosecuted for potential manslaughter!!!! Is there not some law to protect people from these sort of things, in the UK? - i.e. how can the law allow people to pet dangerous animals/reptiles like these?? Really worrying!!!!
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code_wiz wrote:
I am not overreacting...
You sure sounded like it.
code_wiz wrote:
potential loos of life of neighbours
The thing is only a 6 footer.
code_wiz wrote:
If you lived next door to that guy, i am sure your comment would have been the same
If he were my neighbor, I'd be doing the neighborly thing and help out rather than freak out over it.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Paul Conrad wrote:
The thing is only a 6 footer.
My friend and current housemate had a six foot African Rock Python called Katrina. It had a whole bedroom to itself, and they had to keep the door handle propped up with a broom, as it had on occasion reached the door handle (lever type) and nudged it down. The last escape went untraced until his wife noticed no hot water in the shower. It was winter, so they correctly surmised it had probably found its way close to the geyser. The poor oke that reached into that space to retrieve Katrina received a bit on his hand something like a fox terrier would give, not dangerous or agonising, but not fun. Soon after that he handed the snake over to a well know SA herpetologist for relocation to a more suitable environment in the kawZulu-Natal countryside.
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Paul Conrad wrote:
The thing is only a 6 footer.
My friend and current housemate had a six foot African Rock Python called Katrina. It had a whole bedroom to itself, and they had to keep the door handle propped up with a broom, as it had on occasion reached the door handle (lever type) and nudged it down. The last escape went untraced until his wife noticed no hot water in the shower. It was winter, so they correctly surmised it had probably found its way close to the geyser. The poor oke that reached into that space to retrieve Katrina received a bit on his hand something like a fox terrier would give, not dangerous or agonising, but not fun. Soon after that he handed the snake over to a well know SA herpetologist for relocation to a more suitable environment in the kawZulu-Natal countryside.
Brady Kelly wrote:
on occasion reached the door handle (lever type) and nudged it down
Smart animal :omg:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Brady Kelly wrote:
on occasion reached the door handle (lever type) and nudged it down
Smart animal :omg:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
We never knew if it was real smarts, or if it just knew that the door area was the exit, and in approaching said area coincidentally bumped the door handle, or actually targeted the door handle. An interesting aside to this story was my friends pet rabbit, Peter. To feed the python, he bought two rabbits, threw them in the room and closed the door. A day or two later, one rabbit was dead, of 'natural' causes, i.e. probably heart failure, and not eaten by Katrina, and Peter was alive and not eaten by Katrina. Peter was removed from the room and promoted to house pet and lap rabbit.
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Your right, all potential dangers from humanity should be exterminated. That way we can all live in a safe controlled environment with no possibility for strife. All colors should be neutral grays and all rooms should be padded. Cars shouldn't be allowed on the street because that is were children play. All bad words should be removed from the dictionary and every persons tongue should be removed at birth (thus they cannot scream and hurt someone else) Or, with a little common sense we could all: Not stick are hands in dark holes, not walk barefoot through thick underbrush, and generally be cognizant of our environment; in which case the chance of a snake bite becomes nearly astronomical.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayEnnis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
not walk barefoot through thick underbrush
:~ Maybe you don't have the thorns we do, but that is fucking scary! :~
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We never knew if it was real smarts, or if it just knew that the door area was the exit, and in approaching said area coincidentally bumped the door handle, or actually targeted the door handle. An interesting aside to this story was my friends pet rabbit, Peter. To feed the python, he bought two rabbits, threw them in the room and closed the door. A day or two later, one rabbit was dead, of 'natural' causes, i.e. probably heart failure, and not eaten by Katrina, and Peter was alive and not eaten by Katrina. Peter was removed from the room and promoted to house pet and lap rabbit.
Brady Kelly wrote:
one rabbit was dead, of 'natural' causes, i.e. probably heart failure
Likely so. If I were a rabbit and I was thrown in a room with a python, I'm sure I'd do the same :laugh:
Brady Kelly wrote:
Peter was removed from the room and promoted to house pet and lap rabbit.
Cool. I bet the rabbit is happy the python is no longer a member of the house.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I thank God that I was allowed in an age where we were allowed to play outside, ride bicycles like mad kids, eat dirt if we wanted, play contact sports, and just generally do the things that our pampered, over protected, zero-immunity children are prevented from doing.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
I once lost a boomerang over a neighbours wall, at age about ten. They had two Rottweilers which my friend kept occupied and frothing at the mouth by rattling a stick over the front gate, while I climbed over the back wall to get the boomerang. No amount of rules or correctness or whatever would have prevented us doing that.
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"no overreaction there then." I am not overreacting... i am just seriously concerned for the potential loos of life of neighbours. It fair enough on my side to say that... i am atleast proposing a fair trial for the owner.... not like the owner who has potentially caused possible death to others, because of his severe negligence. If you lived next door to that guy, i am sure your comment would have been the same :-)
It's a snake, not Godzilla. :laugh:
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Brady Kelly wrote:
one rabbit was dead, of 'natural' causes, i.e. probably heart failure
Likely so. If I were a rabbit and I was thrown in a room with a python, I'm sure I'd do the same :laugh:
Brady Kelly wrote:
Peter was removed from the room and promoted to house pet and lap rabbit.
Cool. I bet the rabbit is happy the python is no longer a member of the house.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Neither are. Peter was also forwarded to somewhere more suitable for rabbits, but long after Katrina's departure. So, yes, he was probably quite happy about his second life. ;P
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"no overreaction there then." I am not overreacting... i am just seriously concerned for the potential loos of life of neighbours. It fair enough on my side to say that... i am atleast proposing a fair trial for the owner.... not like the owner who has potentially caused possible death to others, because of his severe negligence. If you lived next door to that guy, i am sure your comment would have been the same :-)
code_wiz wrote:
potential loos of life of neighbours.
Unless they're overflowing into your yard, the life of your neighbours loos should not concern you.
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Neither are. Peter was also forwarded to somewhere more suitable for rabbits, but long after Katrina's departure. So, yes, he was probably quite happy about his second life. ;P
So why did Peter have to go, too?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Hi, I read this news in yahoo news. Apparently a snake has broken loose from its owner's house in Kent UK. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080805/tuk-warning-as-6ft-snake-breaks-loose-45dbed5.html Sorry: I am having really a hell of time trying to stick in a link in the message here. This must be frightening for the neighbours. I really feel the owner should be prosecuted for potential manslaughter!!!! Is there not some law to protect people from these sort of things, in the UK? - i.e. how can the law allow people to pet dangerous animals/reptiles like these?? Really worrying!!!!
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Hi, I read this news in yahoo news. Apparently a snake has broken loose from its owner's house in Kent UK. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080805/tuk-warning-as-6ft-snake-breaks-loose-45dbed5.html Sorry: I am having really a hell of time trying to stick in a link in the message here. This must be frightening for the neighbours. I really feel the owner should be prosecuted for potential manslaughter!!!! Is there not some law to protect people from these sort of things, in the UK? - i.e. how can the law allow people to pet dangerous animals/reptiles like these?? Really worrying!!!!
It's a 6 foot constrictor, it may threaten your SMALL dog, possible a baby but an adult could easily manage the snake. Now it is was a poisonous snake I could understand your angst but a constrictor is basically a harmless pet, much less dangerous that a pincer or rotwieller or even an alsation are you going to panic over a loose dog.
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Wow, I am like the computer programming Chuck Norris! Actually, I have an affinity for snakes so I definitely would not be upset if my neighbor loosed a King Cobra. However, I would definitely wish to know about it immediately. Living in the United States there is only one snake who's single bite is likely to kill an adult man so we take different precautions than in the Jungle so prompt notification would be nice. Or even pre-notification. I usually introduce my neighbors to my doberman as a matter of proper procedures. I don't want them to ever panic if she escapes. (My dog is an incredible escape artist)
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayPoor bloody snake is a constrictor, 6ft long, a midget. And yeah your dog is more dangerous than the snake. Me thinks OP has a snake phobia.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Poor bloody snake is a constrictor, 6ft long, a midget. And yeah your dog is more dangerous than the snake. Me thinks OP has a snake phobia.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Me thinks OP has a snake phobia.
I was stopping myself short of saying that earlier. Only thing around here snake-wise I don't like are the Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes that have been sighted a bit more than often here this summer.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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It's a 6 foot constrictor, it may threaten your SMALL dog, possible a baby but an adult could easily manage the snake. Now it is was a poisonous snake I could understand your angst but a constrictor is basically a harmless pet, much less dangerous that a pincer or rotwieller or even an alsation are you going to panic over a loose dog.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
a pincer or rotwieller
Ah, you should see the two pitbulls around the corner from here. Animal control will not do anything about them either :mad:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Me thinks OP has a snake phobia.
I was stopping myself short of saying that earlier. Only thing around here snake-wise I don't like are the Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes that have been sighted a bit more than often here this summer.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
I grew up in the bush in Australia, if you had a phobia about snakes you had a serious problem. Me I used to catch and sell them for pocket money. I think Oz has more poisonous creatues than any other place in the world son an itty bitty constrictor really does not cut it. Try catching a 6 foot king brown, a 2 ft fierce snake.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH