Boy MURDERS Snake at Festival

Allysen · #1 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 12:45 AM

This is one of the worst stories I think I've ever read! I'm utterly speechless right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...=1&oref=slogin

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A man who shows snakes and other reptiles at schools, festivals and libraries says a boy who told the man he hated snakes stomped and killed the man's 10-foot-long python. Scott Braunstein said he was showing Popcorn, a nonpoisonous albino Burmese python, Sunday at the St. Bernadette Festival near Cincinnati.

''The next thing I know ... the kid raises his leg and stomps down on the snake's head,'' Braunstein said. ''The snake started convulsing.''

Braunstein said he saw a man grab the child and say, ''This is why I don't take you anywhere,'' before disappearing.

''I've never, never, had anything like that happen,'' said Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles, based in Dry Ridge, Ky.

Braunstein's collection includes alligators, lizards, spiders and frogs. For two years, Braunstein's animals have been featured in a petting zoo at the festival.

''Scott's business is to educate people about reptiles, and his goal is for people to learn to appreciate rather than fear the reptiles that share this planet with us,'' said Dan Meakin, who founded All Creatures Animal Hospital in Amelia, Ohio.

Sorry if this has already been posted, I took a quick look around but didn't see it already.

themikester · #2 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 01:34 AM

This makes me sick at my Stomach. What in the world is wrong with this kid. Kid needs the beating of his young life and probably some therapy to square up whateve the "heck" else is wrong with him. I am just speechless.

ssjsmits · #3 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 01:38 AM

there's a thread called "Stupid Kid" that involves this, FYI

but it does suck, yes

Cameron...G · #4 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 02:13 AM

that is the beginning of a serial killer. That social path behavior! sickening!

X-Factor · #5 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 02:32 AM

ZOMG!! Death by stomping for the kid!

Kaa_BCC · #6 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 02:37 AM

I want to stomp on the kids head in return. I think he deserves to be in death throes for that.

Sleepy_FF · #7 (**permalink**) 08-28-2007, 02:05 PM

what a moronic kid. if that had been my kid, i would have tanned his hide

toker · #8 (**permalink**) 08-28-2007, 03:47 PM

This has already been talked about at length here

http://redtailboa.net/forums/reptile...tupid-kid.html

Please direct your posts on this subject there. Thank you.

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