I don't see the point in calling ANYBODY to deal with a harmless wild animal that is in its natural habitat, not bothering anyone or posing a threat to anyone. It would be like calling out a police officer or animal control officer to get rid of a native bird perched up in the tree. It's not like any people lived up in that tree. That's where the stupidity part comes in; so many people just automically assume if it's a snake, it HAS to be dangerous, and out to get every last human on the planet. If someone had called out the police because they saw a Bluejay in the tree, or a squirrel, or even a raccoon in broad daylight, they probably would have been cited for tying up the emergency 991 system with a useless call. That sort of fear is totally irrational and inexcusable. Like I said, in this day and age of information, with people like the late Steve Irwin dedicating their lives to educate people about animals like snakes, there is no excuse whatsoever for any person to react in such a way to the mere presence of a snake in a tree that they would wind up killing another person, and this sort of thing belongs in the Middle Ages, along with burning people at the stake for suggesting that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around.
pitbulllady
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