Matt...I'll tell you a not so funny story. One of my students (who was MT state champion many times, VNEA national champion, BCA national champion, and the first female APA 7 in the nation), owned a pet store, and had a 'pet' albino python. One day she had come into the store to open up, and found the python had escaped it's cage (this was an adult animal, about 8-9' long). Upon finding the missing snake, she began to attempt to return the snake to it's cage. It wrapped itself completely around her, and she was temporarily incapacitated. Had a customer not come in and intervened, she might have been squeezed to death. After the close encounter, she decided that the snake was too dangerous, and dispatched it. She took the beautiful skin and was going to have a cue case made from it. She left MT, moved to HI for a few years, and now lives in rural TX. I don't know if she ever had the case made.
Scott Lee
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