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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.
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I'm fine with that however asphyxiation via other means would show as well. If you toss a pillow on their face and hold it down they inhale pillow and dust fiber plus there are pressure markings on their face, plus the instinct will be to bite the pillow to clear the air way that shows up as well..
If you sit on their chest its going to leave distinct bruising that would probably be different from the bruising, plus the person's arms and legs would have to be pinned which would then put bruises on the wrists, or if they're not pinned there would be defensive wounds on the hands.
The only other way is the hollywood hand over the mouth while pinching the nose. It doesn't work in real life because of the unpredictable head thrashing and biting.
.I'm not saying that I don't believe you, but forensic people have probably been trained or seen every kind of human on human physical killing and it would have probably been apparent.
This might just be a freak of nature occurrence.