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| DeeperMadness #1113646 4 months ago |
That doesn't sound like fluffy pone's fault. |
| Draconequus #1113650 4 months ago |
Why would you take your pet to a reptile museum?
Oh that's right, "Wife lets daughter do whatever the hell she wants". |
| Shaky #1113655 4 months ago |
Why would you even take the dog?
If you left it in the car, it would have just cooked. |
| Draconequus #1113657 4 months ago |
I meant that, why would you take it to a museum? |
| DeeperMadness #1113667 4 months ago |
@Drac:
Looking at the line at the bottom, I'm guessing the general consensus was: "Hey, it was the 80s!". That doesn't make it any less stupid though. That was one spoilt little girl. |
| Ginger_Fig #1113674 4 months ago |
More explanation;
I did not personally witness the dog incident...Monfort the Museum owner told the story, I don't know when it happened. He ran the museum in his house. He and his wife lived on the top floor...ground floor held display cases. He had a Gila Monster, a Spitting Cobra, two big pythons and his pride & joy; a 12 foot King Cobra on this floor. Downstairs in the basement he had an enclosure for his crocodiles, as well as a few more cases (he had a Jade Cobra in one). Of course, people were always bringing him snakes they found on their property. He kept the Timber Rattlesnakes and Copperheads in a big pen right under the staircase so you could look down on them while you walked downstairs. I don't know what time of year the dog incident occured...whether it was too hot to leave it in the car. Montford's wife volunteered to keep the dog upstairs but the little girl insisted on carrying it around and the parents didn't have the brains to tell her no. Of course, when the dog saw the snakes it freaked out and started barking...struggled free and fell into the pen. The little girl watched as her dog got bitten over and over again, screaming the whole time. I think Montford told us that story so we'd walk carefully and keep one hand on the rail. |
| Anonymous #1114107 4 months ago |
And the family didn't sue Charles? |
| Ginger_Fig #1114273 4 months ago |
^ I heard the story in about 1982 or '83...before everyone got all lawsuit crazy. There's no telling how long before that the incident actually happened. Old newspaper articles I've dug up indicate that Charles had the Museum even as far back as 1970. |
| Clover_Patch #1115732 4 months ago |
I told the dog story to my mum and she calls bullshit. Says that even back then he would have been shut down for having open pens of snakes. If the dog could fall in when he was being held by a small child, then a small child could have also fallen in. |
| Anonymous #1116207 4 months ago |
True, but back then people actually had fucking common sense, they knew they were ultimately responsible for their own actions.
Not today, not today (And god dammit I feel old now) |
| Ginger_Fig #1116365 4 months ago |
@Clover_Patch: Yes, a human definitely could have fallen in. When I went in the early 80's it was a stand-alone wooden staircase that only had a handrail on one side. It would have been very easy for even a grown man to fall...and even back then it would have turned into a shit-storm.
But nobody did fall in, and nobody ever shut Monfort down. Rheinbeck is a small town and everybody liked the crazy old dude who had a Reptile Museum in his house. Could the dog story be bullshit? Yes, it might be bullshit...I'm only re-telling what some old loon told me when I was a kid. But it makes a good Fluffy Pony story. |
| Anonymous #1212494 3 months ago |
I know this sounds horrible, but I hope the wife and daughter took a lesson away from this traumatizing event. |