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Graham and Jo
 Post subject: Scary
PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:42 pm 
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What do you think of this? http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-03/16ft-python-found-dead-in-a-canal-was-capable-of-attacking-a-person-police-say/

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 Post subject: Re: Scary
PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:17 pm 
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As you say Scary, it makes you wonder how it got there and how long it had been roaming around.

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 Post subject: Re: Scary
PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:01 pm 
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Shudder!!

Was it dead before it entered the canal? Murder at the canal!!!

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Pete Russell
 Post subject: Re: Scary
PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:50 am 
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If it had escaped or been abandanded, in our winter climate it would not have been able to do anything. These are warm blooded reptiles and need high temperatures to survive, it's metabolism would slow it down so much it would go into hibernation. So for the police to say it could have attacked a person is very irrisponsible.
Like Glencairn says, it was most likly to have been a privatly owned reptile and was dead before hand.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:13 am 
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http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/ne ... l/?ref=trn
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