# Why'd it have to be snakes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008 "2008-07-19T00:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/1 "2008-07-19T00:40:19Z")
Heh. Just got this in an email from our community chairperson: > [@](#): > > UPDATED AT 4:10 P.M. – A seven-foot python is missing in Birch Bay and may still be in the area. > > The snake got out of its owner’s home on the 4500 block of Sunburst Drive Saturday, July 12, and is believed to be near Birch Bay-Lynden and Blaine roads, Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo said. The Sheriff’s Office was notified about the missing snake Friday, July 18. Anyone who encounters the snake should call 911, Elfo said. > > County spokesman Joe Bates said that neighbors in a half-mile radius of the owner’s home will be called and notified about the missing snake. > > Elfo said the snake, while not poisonous, is still deadly. Pythons can bite and constrict victims, which blocks the flow of oxygen until they suffocate. > > “They pose a real threat to small children and pets,” Elfo said. > > Authorities have contacted the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle to get information on pythons’ habits and habitats to determine where the missing snake might be, Bates said. Poor thing! It’s pleasant up here… for humans! That snake will freeze if it goes in the water though. (Well, not really. But the creeks around here aren’t especially warm.) I hope it doesn’t try to stay warm on the blacktop and get run over. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/2 "2008-07-19T02:39:21Z")
Poor thing. It’ll probably get hurt trying to get somewhere warm. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/3 "2008-07-19T02:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Poor thing. It’ll probably get hurt trying to get somewhere warm. [/QUOTE] It’ll get into the low-50s tonight. I rode down the main road near where it got loose, on my way to the convenience store. It might get into a drainage ditch, and into a culvert. The area is basically bracken, grass, bushes, cedars, maples, etc. Lots of places for it to hide. A large field has been recently cleared. (So recently I could smell it. IIRC there were trees yesterday evening.) More exposure to the sun, but not long enough for the piles to get warm through decomposition. I sure hope they find it and get it somewhere warm. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/4 "2008-07-19T03:52:07Z")
I’ve had it with these motherfuckin’ snakes in my motherfuckin’ bay! (In all seriousness, I hope it’s found safe and sound) ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/5 "2008-07-19T07:50:28Z")
Heh my exgirlfriend had a pet snake in her apartment. She had mice in the freezer and would microwave them to seem alive for the snake’s feeding time. One day the snake mysteriously disappeared. I don’t know where it went and no one in the building complained of seeing it but it was amusing to think of the potential for scaring the bejeezus out of the neighbors. Then, one week before she was scheduled to move out, it mysteriously reappeared in the apartment and she was able to take it with her. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-it-have-to-be-snakes/457008/6 "2008-07-19T12:11:44Z")
[Jock] That’s just my pet snake, Reggie. Show a little backbone, willya? [/Jock] I hope they find it soon.