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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:04 pm

@ Pepper
Of course any animal can become dangerous, especially if it feels threatened or it needs to defend its territory. There is an inherent danger associated w/ frolicking w/ a black mamba, boa constrictor, cobra, rattle snake, crocodile, hippo, grizzly bear, etc. that the risk to person or life is forseeable that asking your lad to doing something w/ a puppy does not. Now of course the puppy could have rabies, bite your lad, lad has no $ for a tentenus shot, becomes infected and dies...possible, but certainly not a foreseeable outcome. I think it's safe to assume that the lad has no clue about how to properly handle a poisonous snake so the risk of harm/death is foreseeable. Not debating the ethics, if there is an ethical debate to be had on the merits of putting people in potentially deadly situations under false pretenses, having your lad wind up dead isn't funny.

@ Don
I think a case could be made that it would be murder if a person died as a result of a poisonous snake handling bait...there's certainly wilfullnes, premeditation, deliberation, maybe not so much malice. Aggravated assault & manslaughter would certainly be more realistic though.

If you convince a lad your church doesn't believe in gravity & to prove his faith he must jump off a cliff w/o a parachute, he will likely die, sure some people survive falls from great heights, maybe his faith wasn't great enough, either way, you'd be liable for his injury/death & could serve serious time if caught & that wouldn't be funny either.

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:10 pm

whatsthatcomingoverthehil wrote:

My personal view on snakes is the deader the better. However this is a personal view based on the experience of being bitten by my former flatmates pine snake after it escaped and we were trying to coral it back into its tank.

I am an animal lover, but generally only animals with fur.

And definitely not goats!

LOL

I have to agree w/ you, I love mammals, but I don't do snakes at all. If there's one less snake out there, well I won't shed any tears, but I would have a problem w/ the death caused because of some dumbass lad not knowing what the hell he was doing...that borders on animal cruelty. Guineagirl is right, you must be very careful about using animals in baits.

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:40 pm

So its settled then, the Lad can go snake wrestling, but, owing to the relevant Health & Safety Laws he will need to replace the live, deadly snake with a huge great fluffy toy snake as a form of symbolism. Not as deadly but the pictures would still be funny.

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If you truly believed that scammers were so criminal, you wouldn't mind if putting one out of circulation involved risking the life of a snake.

Ethical contortions are always entertaining.

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 7:36 am

whatsthat^^

As much as snakes are held in such low regard thru-out hisory, they are an integral part of the food chain. W/O them, it would be 'Rodents Gone Wild'....

They have wreaked havoc on Guam as an introduced-species, but aside from that they are the #1 eradicator of rats and mice in North America. And that's a good thing, and this mouse is happy to know---click.