Well I am sure many of you have already heard the story about the Arizona restaurant serving Lion tacos. I know its not reptile related but we all hate PETA the same so I could not help but share it. According the the owners of the restaurant they have received 20-30 direct threats and hundreds of indirect threats by people, most of which claim to be PETA supporters or members. Some people are even calling for an investigation into weather or not PETA is involved. According to the 1970 RICO act if they are found to be part of the threats they can be prosecuted as a domestic terror organization which is oh so sweet sounding to my ears. DOWN WITH PETA I say. But what do you think?
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Reptile News: Kids are not born with a fear of snakes
Children are not born with a fear of snakes
A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science looks at research with infants and young children and finds that we are not born with a fear of snakes and spiders but are rather taught to fear them. Research shows that we can just the same be taught to fear flowers but of course the fear of snakes and spiders is learned faster and lasts longer. To view the full text of the findings Click Here.
Authorities raid home and take snakes
This is a story that will become all to common to us if PETA and the HSUS get their way with banning exotic snakes as pets. A home in Cleveland was raided and 20 Pythons, some measuring 15 feet in length were taken from the home. It is not legal to have exotic snakes in Cleavland without a permit and authorities say no one at the home had one so they walked in and took everything. It boggles my mind why an organization with the name “Animal Protection League” would take the snakes from a home where they were being cared for properly knowing and stating that they do not have the facilities nor do the zoos have the facilities to care for the snakes so they will dump them off at serpintariums around the area.
House cathes fire, Iguana still missing.
This weeks Darwin award goes to a family in Fall River who put a blanket over an Iguana enclosure with a heat light on. The blanket promptly caught fire causing an estimated $7,500 in damages to the basement of the home. At story time the Iguana was still missing.
Here is your chance to own a snake house
A family in Idaho foreclosed on their house after not being able to stand their snake infestation any longer. Here is your chance to own a 5bd house in Idaho with a huge snake problem which for people like us is no problem at all.
Ten-Foot Alligator Eats Golfer’s Arm
A golfer whose right arm was ripped off and eaten by a 10-foot alligator says he never would have tried to play a shot near the water hazard if the course had warned him there were alligators about. The alligator pulled him into and under the water, and as his son and other golfers helped him stagger back to land, James Wiencek says, “the alligator swam away, having eaten plaintiff’s arm.”
Wiencek sued the Fripp Island Resort and affiliates in Federal Court.
Wiencek and his son went to the Ocean Creek Golf Club at the Fripp Island Resort near Beaufort on Oct. 8, 2009, for an afternoon round of golf.
On the 11th hole, Wiencek hit his ball near, but not into, a big deep pond, surrounded by a steep bank covered by long grass. The pond itself was dark and brackish, at no time allowing a hint of what lay beneath the surface.
“When the plaintiff reached his right arm towards the ball, without warning, a large, 10-foot long alligator spring from the brackish and dark water and attacked the plaintiff, biting and holding plaintiff’s right arm,” the complaint states.
“The alligator then pulled Plaintiff into the water and attempted to initiate a roll, pulling plaintiff underwater. Plaintiff struggled with the alligator, and the alligator tore plaintiff’s right arm off in a violent and vicious manner above the elbow.
“Plaintiff was helped to the shore by his son and attended to by other patrons of the course.
“The alligator swam away, having eaten plaintiff’s arm.”
Wiencek says that before the attack, “residents of nearby homes had noticed the alligator’s large size and aggressive behavior and had alerted the defendants to its presence and behavior.”
Despite having “actual and constructive knowledge of the ongoing presence and aggressive behavior of the large alligator,” the defendants “failed to take reasonable action to secure the premises of the golf course and to warn its business invitees, including the plaintiff, of the alligator’s aggressive presence, size, or aggressive behavior,” according to the complaint.
Wiencek seeks actual and punitive damages for negligence, pain and suffering, mental anguish, discomfort and disability.
He is represented by Mark Chappell and William McAngus Jr., with Chappell, Smith & Arden of Columbia, S.C.
The defendants are the Fripp Island Resort, The Ocean Courses of Fripp, Fripp Island Co. and The Marina Village of Fripp
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/01/20/33461.htm