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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 Lowes 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).
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)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)becomes involved in trafficking exotic poisonous snakes.
okasha
(11,573 posts)But there is a thriving black market.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)you know, about poisonous snakes, animal friends, etc, but I don't want to make Jesus mad at me or cry.