Autopsies scheduled for two N.B. boys killed by python

[Ptarmigan]

Autopsies scheduled for two N.B. boys killed by python
http://globalnews.ca/news/762560/escaped-python-strangles-kills-two-children-in-new-brunswick/

HALIFAX - Autopsies will be conducted later Tuesday on two young children after a python escaped a pet store in northern New Brunswick and strangled the boys while they slept in an apartment in the same building.

RCMP confirmed the deceased were a five-year-old boy and a seven-year-old boy. The boys are being identified as Connor and Noah Barthe.

Police say a criminal investigation is underway and no charges have yet been laid. The boys’ bodies were removed from the scene late Monday night.

Mounties were called to the home, in Campbellton, at about 6:30 a.m. Monday.

The python** is believed to have escaped from a store called Reptile Ocean and got into the apartment.

Horrible that the parents lost two of their own children.  Something is very suspicious about this whole thing.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Suspicious is right.  Constrictors normally don't kill things just for shits and giggles, they kill something because they want to eat it.  Not impossible, but it seems improbable.

[EagleKeeper]

I think that I have mentioned a couple of times here that I have some experience handling reptiles.

The first mistake that was made was actually keeping a rock python. I've worked at a few different places that sold snakes, none of them sold rock pythons.

These snakes are unusually aggressive and while I would ordinarily agree with TD in regards to snakes only killing what they would eat, experience tells me that there are certain reptiles that do not fall into that mold.

This was a big snake, 100 pounds. when a snake this big and this aggressive gets hungry enough (actually we don't know how well the snake was cared for) to start hunting it's sorta like going shopping for groceries on an empty stomach.

As Iv'e mentioned before I got wrapped up by an 11 ft burmese, half the weight of the rock python, and they are surprisingly strong. The thing that I find unusual is that when the first kid got wrapped up the second kid didn't wake up and run like hell but the fact is that if the snake got two coils on the first kid and squeezed then the first kid wasn't going to do anything other then die. No yelling because their was no air in the first kids lungs.

Anyway, the autopsies should be fairly straight forward. A couple of the dead giveaways for a python attack are teeth left behind in the bite wounds and excessive bleeding, also from the bite wounds.


On edit: I forgot to mention to you folkes that live in southern florida, you have african rock pythons that live among you...sweet dreams.

[DumbAss Tanker]

On edit: I forgot to mention to you folkes that live in southern florida, you have african rock pythons that live among you...sweet dreams.

If it was Louisiana, there'd already be six different recipe books out on them.