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Title: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: viper37 on August 05, 2013, 01:38:17 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/05/nb-two-die-boa-attack.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/05/nb-two-die-boa-attack.html)

(http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/05/nb-two-die-boa-attack.html%5B/b)
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Two children died after a large snake got into an apartment in Campbellton, N.B.
The snake is believed to have gotten loose from an urban zoo called Reptile Ocean. The victims were reportedly five and seven years old. They were in the apartment above the zoo.
Initial reports suggest the snake was a boa constrictor. CBC is trying to confirm the details.
"The city is in shock," said Deputy Mayor Ian Comeau.
He added that the giant snakes have only been legally imported since 2009.
Police have not yet commented on the case, and it's not yet clear how the snake escaped.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:55:24 PM
I think this is a time, viper where you need to give us your own commentary.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: KRonn on August 05, 2013, 01:58:32 PM
Damn snakes. Scary thinking of how those kids were killed, I assume crushed by the Boa. Sheesh, so sad.  :(
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Maximus on August 05, 2013, 02:11:38 PM
QuoteThey were in the apartment above the zoo

Not quite sure what to make of that. Not that the zoo has apartments above it, but that it has only one apartment above it.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: garbon on August 05, 2013, 02:17:25 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 05, 2013, 02:11:38 PM
QuoteThey were in the apartment above the zoo

Not quite sure what to make of that. Not that the zoo has apartments above it, but that it has only one apartment above it.


Other articles note that it is a pet store/reptile zoo and town only has some 7,000 residents.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Caliga on August 05, 2013, 02:34:39 PM
This seems kind of hard to believe to me.  One I can understand, but two?  That must have been one hungry-ass snake. :hmm:
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: viper37 on August 05, 2013, 05:35:58 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:55:24 PM
I think this is a time, viper where you need to give us your own commentary.
I'm surprised of this happening in Canada.  I thought rules for keeping dangeroux&exotic animals like this were far more stricter than to allow a family living above such a place.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Viking on August 05, 2013, 05:41:04 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:55:24 PM
I think this is a time, viper where you need to give us your own commentary.

yeah, cause boa37 only commented "nom nom"
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: DGuller on August 05, 2013, 05:45:26 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 05, 2013, 05:41:04 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:55:24 PM
I think this is a time, viper where you need to give us your own commentary.

yeah, cause boa37 only commented "nom nom"
:pinch:
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Viking on August 05, 2013, 06:14:48 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 05, 2013, 05:45:26 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 05, 2013, 05:41:04 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:55:24 PM
I think this is a time, viper where you need to give us your own commentary.

yeah, cause boa37 only commented "nom nom"
:pinch:

too soon?
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 05, 2013, 06:16:47 PM
ConstrictorPlates#3: Sounds like kids just wern't fast enuff IF U CANT OUTRUN A SNAKE WAT GUD R U
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Siege on August 05, 2013, 06:26:57 PM
Didn't you guys believe in natural selection?
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Viking on August 05, 2013, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 05, 2013, 06:26:57 PM
Didn't you guys believe in natural selection?

No, I just accept it as being part of the best explanation for the available facts out there. Empathy for random infants of my own species is actually highly evolutionarily adaptive since they are highly likely to be either related to me or related to people who are in my in group. So, yeah, altruism evolved.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: viper37 on August 05, 2013, 06:42:51 PM
more details:
-it was a python
-it happened during the night
-the kids were staying at one of their friends's place, they were not at home.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Malthus on August 06, 2013, 03:02:43 PM
It is hard to understand how it could have bagged two kids so silently that no-one noticed. One, sure, but two?
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Ed Anger on August 06, 2013, 03:24:27 PM
Was the snake bilingual?

Too soon?
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: viper37 on August 06, 2013, 03:38:22 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 06, 2013, 03:02:43 PM
It is hard to understand how it could have bagged two kids so silently that no-one noticed. One, sure, but two?
more details:
- the python was not in the store below, it was in the appartment where the store owners lives
- it escaped from its vivarium, got into an airduck wich collapse under the weight of the animal
- the owner never heard anything, only discovering the bodies in the morning.
- an autopsy will be performed to see if they were killed by the fall of the snake, or constricted.
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 06, 2013, 04:50:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 05, 2013, 06:16:47 PM
ConstrictorPlates#3:

Oh come on, guys.  That was comedy gold on TWO levels!
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: Malthus on November 11, 2016, 05:00:05 PM
Follow-up post: the man in charge of the store and sleep-over was found "not guilty" in criminal negligence case for the death of two boys killed by his escaped python.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/python-death-jurors-instructions-1.3842113
Title: Re: Two kids killed by a boa in New Brunswick
Post by: CountDeMoney on November 11, 2016, 05:02:45 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 06, 2013, 04:50:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 05, 2013, 06:16:47 PM
ConstrictorPlates#3:

Oh come on, guys.  That was comedy gold on TWO levels!


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