# Snakes! in a Flat!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-in-a-flat/461545>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 28, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-in-a-flat/461545 "2008-08-28T13:49:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-in-a-flat/461545/1 "2008-08-28T13:49:23Z")

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A Tokyo man has gone far beyong cat-hoarding.

[From CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/27/japan.snakes.ap/index.html)

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> The illicit collection was discovered when Nobukazu Kashiwagi called for an ambulance after being bitten on a finger by one of his snakes, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
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> Kashiwagi, aged 41, was trying to feed the snake when he was bitten in mid July. He was seriously ill in a Tokyo hospital for several weeks, but subsequently recovered. Police arrested Kashiwagi after he was discharged, the spokesman said.
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> Kashiwagi kept the deadly snakes without permission from the Tokyo metropolitan government, the police spokesman said.

I can hear the Tokyo cops now…

_“I am sick of these motherfuckin’ snakes, in this motherfuckin’ apartment!”_

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-in-a-flat/461545/2 "2008-08-28T14:26:59Z")

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Well they are really polite so it would probably be more like

Please do not have snakes that fornicate mothers in your domicile that also fornicates with mothers.