Anybody seen my 'boa'

Donnie · 09-25-12, 05:11 PM

Small report on the BBC today about a stow away 'boa'

I really wish reporters would do their research before reporting

BBC News - Snake stows away under car in Kansas City

Skumbo · 09-25-12, 05:19 PM

Yours?

Nice "boa" haha... *facepalm*

Raan · 09-25-12, 05:27 PM

I have a boa just like that one :P but he can't steal cars

Kaetlinv · 09-25-12, 05:35 PM

Whoa, that was a big boy.

When it started...
Saw the pattern *facepalms* "That isn't a boa!" (My roommate is across the room) She jumps and asks 'what?' I reply "Watching an article. mistook a ball python for a boa. It isn't a boa at all!" She looks at me with a silly smile, since she isn't a snake fanatic, but thinks they're pretty. "Well no one but people like you are going to care about that," with a chuckle.

Well... yeah... I do care. lol

bigsnakegirl785 · 09-25-12, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaetlinv

"Well no one but people like you are going to care about that," with a chuckle.

That's exactly what I find sad. I've seen news reports saying that a ball python is a young Burmese python and talking about the danger it'll pose when it gets larger. Now, any uneducated person who sees a ball python will be worried about the "danger it will cause when it gets bigger". I've had people ask if my boa constrictor was a copperhead. Common sense should have told them it wasn't as I was free handling him, but people just don't know any better, or choose not to. And all this fear-mongering and ignorance in the media isn't helping.

I shook my head sadly when they said it was red-tailed boa, and I laughed so hard when they were talking about the "big, big spotted snake". Obviously mine and most non-snake people's definitions of "big" are much different. My little almost 3 ft boa was called huge by one of my neighbors, so just imagine a 4 ft ball python. XD

Ivalynfyre · 09-25-12, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

I shook my head sadly when they said it was red-tailed boa, and I laughed so hard when they were talking about the "big, big spotted snake". Obviously mine and most non-snake people's definitions of "big" are much different. My little almost 3 ft boa was called huge by one of my neighbors, so just imagine a 4 ft ball python. XD

This is very true.. today in one of my classes we had computers to do an assignment on, I finished my work early and went to my photobucket to look at pictures of my critters. My friend looked over as I was on pictures of Hikkie, and she thought my little three month old boa was big, and thought the three-foot long Diamond was enormous.. the look on her face when I told her how big my little boa is going to get was priceless.

Skumbo · 09-25-12, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

That's exactly what I find sad. I've seen news reports saying that a ball python is a young Burmese python and talking about the danger it'll pose when it gets larger. Now, any uneducated person who sees a ball python will be worried about the "danger it will cause when it gets bigger". I've had people ask if my boa constrictor was a copperhead. Common sense should have told them it wasn't as I was free handling him, but people just don't know any better, or choose not to. And all this fear-mongering and ignorance in the media isn't helping.

I shook my head sadly when they said it was red-tailed boa, and I laughed so hard when they were talking about the "big, big spotted snake". Obviously mine and most non-snake people's definitions of "big" are much different. My little almost 3 ft boa was called huge by one of my neighbors, so just imagine a 4 ft ball python. XD

Thats what I was thinking, it really is kind of sad, makes you think as well, how many things are they messing up such basic information on that has to do with things we arent experts on? More reason I dont want the news..