6ft Snake Breaks Loose - Kent

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Warning As 6ft Snake Breaks Loose - Yahoo! News UK

[Oops_my_bad]

Yeh, my trouser zip broke again - sorry about that

[EduTech]

Yeh, my trouser zip broke again - sorry about that

 

Is it me or do we have a dreamer.. dreaming in this forum

[maniac]

Saw that on the local news yesterday, lots of teachers from my last school live in that area

 

St marys island isn't even a proper island, although technically it qualifies, but it's only about 10ft from main land!

 

One thing that article doesn't mention is who the snake belongs to;

 

Missing snake belongs to X-factor star | KentOnline| News

 

Mike.

[Andrew_C]

Residents have been advised to lock their doors, close windows and wherever possible keep pets inside while the snake is missing.

WTF?? Lock the door? What the blazes do they think the thing's going to do? Flip the latch so it can get in to eat Tiddles? Jeez... and journalists are supposed to be educated.... Wait, this is Kent, I forgot.

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and journalists are supposed to be educated....

 

So are the police spokespersons who first gave that advice...

 

What bugs me is the recent '999 is for emergencies' campaign suddenly becomes 'if you see it lazing in your garden, call 999'

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WTF?? Lock the door? What the blazes do they think the thing's going to do? Flip the latch so it can get in to eat Tiddles? Jeez... and journalists are supposed to be educated.... Wait, this is Kent, I forgot.

 

didn't notice that, well spotted. It is a little stupid, probably a case of someone over the top.

[dhicks]

What the blazes do they think the thing's going to do? Flip the latch so it can get in to eat Tiddles?

 

Did you not see Jurassic Park? "We should be fine, as long as they don't figure out how to open doors..."

 

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[Friez]

Escaped prisoner snake eh?

Probably on a fight out of the country already!

 

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Snakes on a plane?

[Andrew_C]

Did you not see Jurassic Park? "We should be fine, as long as they don't figure out how to open doors..."

Not only do snakes not have OPPOSABLE thumbs, they don't have ANY thumbs at all. Still, I suppose that things mouth is big enough to go around a doorknob... RUN!

[Guest frances]

The school I work at has loads of animals. They have lizards and they feed them on locusts. The locusts and and get out and there have been a few times that I have found a locust jumping about at the back of the PCs in science.

 

The school used to a have a tantranula, but it died and the caretaker wants to get a corn snake.

 

Such things would never happen in the commerial world.

[Andrew_C]

Such things would never happen in the commercial world.

Why ever not? If what the business is about is teaching kids about the world around them, then having animals to learn from is perfectly sensible. Similarly Estate Agents employ hyenas, and law firms employ sharks.

[dhicks]

Such things would never happen in the commerial world.

 

Exactly. The commercial world is dull and boring.

 

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[Friez]

Exactly. The commercial world is dull and boring.

 

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Depends what the line of business they're in imho.

 

I for one wouldn't find the music industry, movie industry, game industry, or other various different media related industries 'boring', and these are all part of the commercial world.

 

But if you enjoy working with animals you could always work in a research lab.. errr I mean zoo.

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The school I work at has loads of animals. They have lizards and they feed them on locusts. The locusts and and get out and there have been a few times that I have found a locust jumping about at the back of the PCs in science.

 

The school used to a have a tantranula, but it died and the caretaker wants to get a corn snake.

 

Such things would never happen in the commerial world.

 

What a school!

[john]

The school I work at has loads of animals. They have lizards and they feed them on locusts. The locusts and and get out and there have been a few times that I have found a locust jumping about at the back of the PCs in science.

 

The school used to a have a tantranula, but it died and the caretaker wants to get a corn snake.

 

Such things would never happen in the commerial world.

Wow, most excitment we had was the snake escaping its tank a couple of times in the junior science lab.

 

Then again, best one I've had was went to Biology this week and found the tropical fish tank had gone from clear to muddy green, fish still alive, well all bar 1, but I can't believe no-one had been in to look at it and feed and clean the poor fishes.

 

Never mind I cleaned them a bit, sorted the filters out, changed some water and added water softener stuff which was next to the tank (yes I did read the info on the bottle etc) and removed the dead fish from the top of the tank, so hope they will be better now! I don't think they would have survived until results day next week when the Bio staff will be back in. I think maybe the techy is perhaps ill if they were supposed to be checking in on them or something.

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tropical fish tank had gone from clear to muddy green, fish still alive, well all bar 1, but I can't believe no-one had been in to look at it and feed and clean the poor fishes.

 

If they get the right type of fish together with a pump they shouldn't have problems.

[john]

I think the issue was the pumps filters had sooooo much sludge in it that it couldnt filter any more out. As a keeper of a large pond outside I know that my filters do get rather sludged up and need to be well cleaned every so often even though they should to a point look after themselves, but I think that was the problem in this tanks case, filters solid with sludge, pump greened up and tank green.

 

Someone had opened the blinds on the roof lights which are normally closed in summer to stop direct sun on it, so I think the cleaner must have opened them to save using the lights and not shut them again and hence the state its got in as I've never ever seen it this bad before and the fish are still the same, I think they are neon tetras myself but could be wrong, never bothered asking the Bio department just look at them when coming in the lab for IT issues etc or just to vist them.

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The sun light did it.

 

I have a 6ft tank (used to have 2) with tropical fish and have done for around 6 years now. I hardly ever need to clean it (once a year) and have not filters because i mix the right fish. If they get a couple of plec they should keep the algae low. If they air circulation in the tank ans top it up with fresh every now and then everything should be fine. oh also don't put cold water fish in they dirty.

 

think they are neon tetras myself

Or it could be a cardinal tetra

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I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's not as if a reticulated python or a green anaconda [yes i have watched austin stevens] have escaped - i mean those ****ers will eat you AND your dog. (unless they've already had their annual meal ofcourse ) The owner would have to keep a couple of cows in his backyard and preferably have a big garden in order to satisfy the appetite of an anaconda.

 

Are boa's especially good at camouflaging ?, otherwise it seems odd someone hasn't noticed a 6ft snake on their travels. Athough 6ft isn't really 'big' for a big snake, is it ? IT's like what ben nevis is to everest, big for this country but absolutely nothing in the great scheme of things.