HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- A North Carolina man is losing his exotic reptile collection worth $49,000 after police found dozens of venomous lizards and snakes in his home.
Fifty-one-year-old Walter Kidd of Hendersonville pleaded guilty Friday to 30 misdemeanor charges of possessing endangered animals and failing to properly label containers of poisonous snakes.
Police seized the reptiles in August after Kidd was bitten by an exotic venomous snake and rushed to a hospital. Officers said his mobile home was packed with snakes in plastic containers.
Kidd's attorney says the reptiles were not a danger because they were kept inside his home.
The creatures were taken to the state natural sciences museum in Raleigh.
"Kidd's attorney says the reptiles were not a danger because they were kept inside his home."
ReplyDeleteWhat a brain dead idiot this attorney must be, if he believes that the deadly creatures were not a danger because they were kept inside Kidd's home.
How many times over the years have we seen and heard reports of snakes escaping from their tanks and turning up on and in someone else's property.
Folks should not be allowed to keep snakes of any type and the penalties for doing so should be harsh, minimum ten years in prison and many thousands of pounds in fines. Or even better, have them dumped in a deep pit with their pets.