Stupid Kid!!!

[HARTSOCK]

This is an horrible story!! I wonder why the snake was left in what turned out to be an uncontroled situation, but still --- stupid, stupid kid.



Boy really really doesn't like snakes... Thu Aug 23, 4:44 PM ET



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.

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Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, Enquirer.Com

[jenaero]

I read that on another forum and it makes me want to vomit. I would have throttled that kid within an inch of his life and done the same to the father. That snake was only 2 years old.

[Kobi Baby]

I would be in jail right now had I been there when it happened. And that child would be convulsing...due to a stomping of the head. Stupid kids. Stupid parents.

[HARTSOCK]

you know, it is such a sad commentary how we are so quick to kill things...I am far from what you would call a tree hugging, animal activist (no offense anyone) but stuff like this just shows how cruel humans can be. The more I think about this, the more it really bothers me...

[toker]

This story really makes me sick, but what is worse if I read this part right ...

"This is why I don't take you anywhere," before disappearing

They just took off? What the heck? At the very least the parent and kid should stick around to try and make things right... ... right??? what does that teach the child? if you do bad, just make a quick getaway?

Oy. I HOPE I read that wrong and it was not the case.

[John_E_Dove]

That is absolutely unbelievable. And you can bet no one has any idea who the kid and parent was.
I'm not sure they would have gotten away had it been me. That kid needs help and the parent..........., the parent is not a parent.

[Kobi Baby]

Sickening. Absolutely sickening.

[HavocovaH]

Originally Posted by Kobi Baby

I would be in jail right now had I been there when it happened. And that child would be convulsing...due to a stomping of the head. Stupid kids. Stupid parents.

Couldn't have said it better myself.