One 'expert' says the kids may have had chicken for supper, or something else that's python food... I got so sick of hearing about it I put Looney Tunes on and am watching Sylvester try to catch Tweety. When commenting on CBC the deputy mayor of Campbellton, Ian Comeau said, (and don't blame me!) "It's been an emotional rollercoaster".

Such creatures are highly dangerous and there should be a country wide ban on selling and/or breeding them. While such situations are few and far between, thank goodness, just once is once too many. On this morning's news the town's mayor said the council has looked at the existence of such a store before and it looked like it would need to revisit the situation.
Too little too late for two little boys and their parents.

The whole event appears contrived to me.

I'm sure all of us are aware how much noise either a 5 or 7 year old can make. And, how neither of the boys didn't have time to react and make it to the door (assuming it was closed and unlocked at the time) is a mystery.

There's new news regarding the snake:
African rock pythons are not allowed under the Exotic Wildlife Regulation.

The whole event appears contrived to me.

In what way is this contrived?

No, ownership of a handful of large species that have the potential to harm should be banned and I agree with that, this species of snake is very temperamental and nasty on a good day.

There is no reason to ban other species that pose ZERO threat to humans.

A ball python can't kill or severely injure a human, nor can a garter snake, or a rosy boa, or a king snake and the list goes on.

Dogs do more harm to people then small-medium sized pet snakes do.

I imagine that if a fifteen foot python is squeezing the s*** out of you, then you would be hard pushed to make any noise besides the odd gasp or fart!

If you say so. I would think that some noise would result if only a "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"

Bisto.

Whilst I don't wish to sound like my mother...she always said "there's no smoke without fire"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...hip-risks.html

"...Reptile experts are baffled by a python attack in an apartment in New Brunswick that left two young boys dead..."

" ... In the meantime, the shocking attack has baffled even snake experts.

"It’s strange, I’m just trying to piece it together,” says Lee Parker, the facilities manager at Ontario reptile zoo Reptilia. “They don't go on killing sprees … it doesn't make sense to me."

Jeff Reynolds, manager at the Reptile Store in Hamilton, says: "The [African rock python] is not overly aggressive, not any more aggressive than your larger-type snake. I find it very bizarre that it would attack two [kids]."

Such deadly attacks aren’t unheard of, but are rare.

The last attack on a human by an African rock python was in 2002, when it killed and swallowed a 10-year-old boy in Durban, South Africa. Three years earlier, a smaller rock python killed a three-year-old boy after escaping its enclosure in Centralia, Ill... "

Very strange.. and incredibly sad, what ever the cause.

Well, ok, perhaps the ban should only extend to the dangerous variety (with a very wide interpretation of dangerous). Nevertheless, I really don't see the attraction in keeping snakes. Iguanas I can understand, there are some funny Igauana videos on YT.

Latest reports say NOT in the store below but actually in the apartment...getting through a vent in the ceiling and then bringing the ceiling crashing down. Unheard.

Also a report that the snake had got out into the ventilation system before.

Does anyone know if it's possible to tell if a ceiling came down from weight above or if it was hacked at and pulled from below? Send for the CSI team.

My friends son had a python of some kind escape into their basement, my friends daughter (teen) woke one night to find the snake stretching itself along her body (apparently they do that to see if the prey will fit????), needless to say the daughter didn't sleep downstairs for a while, they never did find the snake.

I find it hard to believe that the snake would have strangled two boys without waking either of them or anyone else in the home, especially with the crashing through the ceiling thing. The truth will come out eventually. Whatever really happened, it's really sad.

What the snake was likely doing was trying to warm itself, in a cool basement, well almost anywhere in Canada for most of the year, it would be too cold for a tropical snake, and sensing a 98 degree body would be a good source of heat for the snake to warm itself.

The kids had been to a petting zoo, maybe the snake found the scent of prey irresistable.