Exotic animals are too dangerous for public
To the editor
What politician in their right mind would allow the average citizen to possess pythons, baboons, lions, bears and on and on and on.
Especially after the bad experience that happened over the years. People losing their faces from baboons, kids being squeezed to death by constrictor snakes, others being bitten by poisonous snakes, bears and lions mauling people.
How in the world can they allow ownership of these animals. Why do they allow stores to sell them? Not only animals but plants and trees too.
The state frowns on invasive plants and trees and yet allows them to be sold.
What is wrong with this picture? And speaking of packages, notice how the weight of products are going down and the price is going up. Where’s Big Brother when you need him.
And without the aid of scissors or a knife you have to be a well trained athlete to open some of the packages.
Oh, and what about the people that own the exotic animals. They’re walking the streets even though they have a few screws loose. The trouble is they’ll pass it on to their family. So now we have a house full of screwballs.
I realize that next to drug smuggling, exotic animals and plants are second on the list of smuggling. But thanks to our politicians crime does pay.
No sense putting it on the ballot, they’ll sneak them in anyway.
Since drugs and exotic animals are such a threat to humans, why not give the death penalty to violators.
Ralph Brookhart
St. James City