Has there ever been a snake that actually killed two people this way ever? One person is enough of a freak occurrence that probably happens very rarely, but outside of maybe being bit has any snake done something similar. Did some quick research and couldn't find anything, so it just doesn't seem likely at all.
Is it the scientific community, though, or is it a bunch of dudes on the Internet that like snakes? I don't know dissentowner, so correct me if I'm wrong, but why do you think he's a scientist? I just don't get that impression.
No reasonable person would say we shouldn't fully investigate what happened, but the most plausible theory at this point is the giant snake that was found in the same room with the kids, that died in a manner consistent with how giant snakes kill, killed them. There is precedent for human attacks and the kids are the same size (or smaller) than photos of snakes killing pigs and antelope (photos on the wiki page I linked).
Did you even read any previous posts in this thread because it sure doesn't seem like it.
Is it the scientific community, though, or is it a bunch of dudes on the Internet that like snakes? I don't know dissentowner, so correct me if I'm wrong, but why do you think he's a scientist? I just don't get that impression.
No reasonable person would say we shouldn't fully investigate what happened, but the most plausible theory at this point is the giant snake that was found in the same room with the kids, that died in a manner consistent with how giant snakes kill, killed them. There is precedent for human attacks and the kids are the same size (or smaller) than photos of snakes killing pigs and antelope (photos on the wiki page I linked).
Wikipedia = bunch of dudes on internet.
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At the end of the day, I'll take the medical examiner's word and RCMP's, who has all the evidence, over a bunch of so called experts questioning things with little to no information that is being disseminated.
Its not like they're throwing darts to figure out the cause of death or that no one is thinking of other motives or possibilities.
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All I know about snakes I learned from The Crocodile Hunter, but I agree it sounds pretty odd to me that a snake would kill two children and not even attempt to eat them. Animals don't kill for no reason.
As sad as it sounds, with the state of the world (people murdering each other and posting about it on facebook, women being held captive for over a decade, mass shootings, etc..), I find it to be a much more likely scenario that the parents strangled their kids and put the snake in there afterwards to blame it. Seems pretty simple, and they certainly wouldn't be the first people to murder their children. Theres way more precedence for that than the snake scenario.
At the end of the day, I'll take the medical examiner's word and RCMP's, who has all the evidence, over a bunch of so called experts questioning things with little to no information that is being disseminated.
Its not like they're throwing darts to figure out the cause of death or that no one is thinking of other motives or possibilities.
Whatever, man, I watch CSI. I know this always ends up who you least expect the most.
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All I know about snakes I learned from The Crocodile Hunter, but I agree it sounds pretty odd to me that a snake would kill two children and not even attempt to eat them. Animals don't kill for no reason.
As sad as it sounds, with the state of the world (people murdering each other and posting about it on facebook, women being held captive for over a decade, mass shootings, etc..), I find it to be a much more likely scenario that the parents strangled their kids and put the snake in there afterwards to blame it. Seems pretty simple, and they certainly wouldn't be the first people to murder their children. Theres way more precedence for that than the snake scenario.
Sure they do. A cougar in our neighborhood killed 10 of the neighbor's sheep in one night and never ate one of them.
Then he came back a few nights later and killed another 15. Again, he never ate one of them.
At the end of the day, I'll take the medical examiner's word and RCMP's, who has all the evidence, over a bunch of so called experts questioning things with little to no information that is being disseminated.
Its not like they're throwing darts to figure out the cause of death or that no one is thinking of other motives or possibilities.
Yeah I can just imagine some in this thread questioning a murder.
"Well he has several gunshot wounds but a knife was found in the house, he must have been stabbed to death".
The thing that worries me most about the people asking questions about this incident, is that there are people not asking questions, and instead taking everything they hear at face value.
Like every single other encyclopedia Wikipedia is going to have some inaccuracies and it's definitely going to be susceptible to biases but not even scientific journals are immune to that. As long as an article has proper citation it's very likely going to rival the accuracy of any other form of media. Controversial subjects like politics and religion should definitely not be taken completely at face value but again that goes for every form of media discussing them.
The people most against Wikipedia are high school students who's teachers have told them not to use them simply because it's practically cheating on how easy it is to use. Remember a lot of teachers use to have to go to libraries and beyond to research something it takes us 5 seconds to google now, so they are pretty bitter.
Usually you'd have to be pretty stupid to cite Wikipedia for anything formal, but even stupider if it's not one of your first stops to get information. It's all about using the references.
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