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TexasTowelie

(112,329 posts)
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 09:06 PM Jul 2015

Police: Cobra missing after man dies of possible snakebite

A cobra snake is missing from the Temple home of a teenage pet shop employee who died in North Austin Tuesday night after possibly being bitten by a snake.

At 9:37 p.m., Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services and Austin police found 18-year-old Grant Thompson in a Lowe’s parking lot on 13000 North Interstate 35 with puncture wounds on his wrist. Thompson was in cardiac arrest and was unresponsive, according to police.

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Medics found several contained animals in the car, including a snake, tarantulas and a bullfrog.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/police-cobra-missing-after-man-dies-of-possible-sn/nmzWC/ (subscription required).

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Police: Cobra missing after man dies of possible snakebite (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2015 OP
Pet shops have cobras?!? nt OnyxCollie Jul 2015 #1
Texas. Freedumb. Libertea. nt valerief Jul 2015 #2
No. okasha Jul 2015 #3
I'm just curious as to how an 18 year old pet shop employee OnyxCollie Jul 2015 #4
Likewise. okasha Jul 2015 #5
I really want to say something, TexasTowelie, Ilsa Jul 2015 #6

okasha

(11,573 posts)
3. No.
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 10:08 PM
Jul 2015

Someone is illegally trafficking in exotic species.

You can obtain a permit to keep and/or sell non-indigenous venomous snakes, but I'm betting this kid bought, or was selling, these animals illicitly.


 

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
4. I'm just curious as to how an 18 year old pet shop employee
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 10:26 PM
Jul 2015

becomes involved in trafficking exotic poisonous snakes.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. I really want to say something, TexasTowelie,
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 10:53 PM
Jul 2015

you know, about poisonous snakes, animal friends, etc, but I don't want to make Jesus mad at me or cry.

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