Boy Kills 10-foot Snake

[pioneer]

source: The Associated Press

A man who shows snakes and other reptiles at schools, festivals and libraries says a boy who told the man he hated snakes stomped and killed the man's 10-foot-long python. Scott Braunstein said he was showing Popcorn, a nonpoisonous albino Burmese python, Sunday at the St. Bernadette Festival near Cincinnati.

"The next thing I know ... the kid raises his leg and stomps down on the snake's head," Braunstein said. "The snake started convulsing."

Braunstein said he saw a man grab the child and say, "This is why I don't take you anywhere," before disappearing.

"I've never, never, had anything like that happen," said Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles, based in Dry Ridge, Ky.

[udtohan]

scary!

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It's the biblical curse. Man will stump on the head of the serpent; and the serpent shall bite the heel of man.

[pioneer]

The boy said to his father: "I hate snake."

I hate snakes, too.

I've killed a number of snakes.

[udtohan]

hadlok bitaw..murag satanas tan-awon