KY. Snakes Seized As Owner Loses Fingers

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Ky. Snakes Seized As Owner Loses Fingers

AP

Posted: 2008-03-31 23:17:21

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man wasn't around when officers seized reptiles from his home. That's because he was at a hospital having fingers amputated after a snakebite, his wife says.

 

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources seized seven rattlesnakes, a gaboon viper, a king cobra, an iguana, two monitor lizards, two alligators, a boa constrictor and a python.

 

The 36-year-old Campbellsville man faces 15 counts of transporting wildlife into Kentucky without a transportation permit and 10 counts of possessing inherently dangerous animals.

 

 

I would thing that the loss of his fingers would be punishment enough.