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Originally Posted by dissentowner

Because if you are going to kill somebody and blame it on a snake you are going to asphixiate them. If you anything at all about snakes you would know they don't just go around killing people, this is not Hollywood. If it was one kid who had been playing with the scent of prey and the snake had tried to eat him it might be believable but the Uncle is saying this snake got loose somehow from a secure tank it had never escaped before, went through the ventilation system, crashed through a ceiling, and then attacked one child first, killed him, let him go without any attempt at eating him, and then attacked another boy the same way? Does that not send any kind of red flag to you? Lets look at the facts in issue here.
1. Snakes only suffocate their prey when they want to eat, when they are frightened or stressed they will strike bite repeatedly, not coil.
2. The odds of the snake killing one boy and letting him go and then moving onto yet another boy and doing the same thing is unbelievable. I would say you have better odds of winning 6/49.
3. The Uncle says the boys were playing with goats, and other farm animals and then never washed after. Really? What parent after their kids play in the dirt and with farm animals does not haul their kids into the tub that night? If the kids were exposed to these type of animals like we know they are then surely those adults around obviously know you don't leave those smells around. It doesn't make sense.
4. A snake kills its prey by taking up the slack every time it's prey takes a breath. If you have never seen a big snake do this to a prey animal that's alive I can tell you that animal squeals like hell. How did the other boy not hear his brother? How did nobody else hear it in the building? And if the other brother did why in the hell would he not run for help or just get the hell out of there?
5. When snakes are stressed they do not eat. I have seen many cases where a snake was stressed out by a minor thing like a respiratory infection or in one case a guys snake stopped eating after he got a drum set because the noise stressed it out. So a snake falls out of the damn ceiling and he is suddenly hungry? Um no.
6. If I was going to kill somebody and blame it on a snake what would be the way you would do it? Obviously by asphyxiation.
7. How in the hell does a giant snake gets its body under somebody sleeping without lifting them up and awakening them?
Look, I am not saying it absolutely could not have been the snake, I am saying this would have to be one of the biggest freak deaths in history. The intial report of the cause of death as asphyxiation means nothing. I really hope they dig deeper.

Thanks, that's more like what I was looking for. I honestly had no idea what you thought was so fishy about this until this post.