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The one that crushed those two little boys.

That all seems a bit odd to me.

Don't snakes crush what they want to eat?

So, why did it crush two and why didn't it eat one?

Have they actually confirmed the type of snake or if it was actually a snake that killed them

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/python-attack-snake-escapes-from-canadian-pet-store-and-kills-two-boys-as-they-sleep-8747571.html

doesnt sit right with me either, why would the other boy not wake when it crushed the first,

snakes arnt that fast, to crush 2 children without them waking,or making a noise, or somthing, :-S

I think the boys may have been cuddled up together so they could have been crushed together but they are saying they were strangled.

im sorry but i dont get how 2 boys sleeping cuddled or not, could be crushed by a big snake without at least one waking up n making some sort of noise, it would have to have got underneath them, how would they not wake as it lifted under them?


feel so much for the boys and there family whatever has happened, its a tragedy for the poor family, :-(

A criminal investigation has been launched. (By the RCMP.)

Contradictory reports everywhere:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130807-python-snake-killed-brothers-house-pet-police-canada

According to the Independent who quoted from Mark O’Shea’s 2007 book Boas and Pythons of the World, the African rock python is described as the continent’s largest snake, Africa’s “giant” equivalent to the anaconda.

They have been confirmed to reach lengths of up to 7.5m (25ft), and Mr O’Shea said: “These are often bad-tempered snakes and large examples not only have the capability of easily killing an adult human but there are also several well-documented cases of their eating people.”

I would have thought it would have eaten one of the children if it had gone to the trouble of killing them.

I can't imagine it would have done it for any other reason.

And was it not kept 'downstairs' and the boys were 'upstairs'