Venomous_RBB
Very Well-Known Member
Hi Everyone,
Well this week has been a really long one.
As a favour I decided to look after this guys snakes as he was moving and had no where to keep them. Although I didn't know him very well I met him on this SITE. He came to have a look at one of my snakes who was not doing too well a few weeks ago and I was thankful for his advice. He seriously must of seen me coming ...
I arranged to meet the guy last weekend to pick up his snakes, half an hour away. I ended up taxi him around to various locations to pick up his snakes and their gear, it felt really weird having nearly a complete stranger in the car with me and my younger brother. I had no prior knowledge that this was going to happen. We had discussed me looking after the snakes for a week and then he started talking about a month, really putting me on the spot with all of this.
When I got home and looked at his snakes, they were filthy and in filthy conditions, I had to clean them, which wasn't easy and they must not have been handled much as they were all aggressive. Being bitten by all of them except for one. Now if someone got bit by one of my snakes, I would have gone and picked them straight up. Not this guy. All week he was trying to talk me into buying his aggressive snakes and pushing me into keeping them longer. And telling me all his problems about how broke he is and how he's got all these bills to pay and no one will give him a lift to pick them up. No wonder! I started to get a very uneasy feeling about this person as the week went up and kept asking him when he can arrange to pick them up.
Today this all came to a head. I needed the snakes gone as I have family arriving from Brisbane tomorrow and I just didn't feel comfortable having any further dealings with this guy. He kept saying he couldn't arrange to pick them up and couldn't I just drop them back. I told him I was busy, but he wouldn't take no for an answer and finally said I could just stick them out in the shed with a blanket over them until he could make arrangements. They would die as we don't have electricity to the shed and it's open to the elements.
With my father, I finally worked out to take his snakes back and he would give us $30 for petrol, never offered anything for when I picked them up or looked after them. Tried to fob me off with some skinks that I just found out are not even on licence, as you know I released them. We drove over there and he came out as I was getting the snakes out and him and his wife started removing the snakes before we could say anything. They quickly hurried them back inside and shut the door in front of us, he came out and said he had to get some money as he had $100 and needed to break it so we took him down to Coles. Again, driving about 5 minutes away with him in the car with us. He got some stuff and said he would be back and went over to the booze shop, me and my dad was watching him the whole time but he nicked off. This guy is not to be trusted whatsoever, obviously he has ripped other people off as NO ONE wants to deal with him. He is selling two jungles (male and female) under 5 years old, one water python female, one intergrade which looks like a jungle cross. He said he has a buyer for these, boy do I feel sorry for them.
He can come across quite helpful but DON'T trust him. He is now threatening me and I have been to the Police which will be getting in touch with him. If you wish to know more PM me privately.
Well this week has been a really long one.
As a favour I decided to look after this guys snakes as he was moving and had no where to keep them. Although I didn't know him very well I met him on this SITE. He came to have a look at one of my snakes who was not doing too well a few weeks ago and I was thankful for his advice. He seriously must of seen me coming ...
I arranged to meet the guy last weekend to pick up his snakes, half an hour away. I ended up taxi him around to various locations to pick up his snakes and their gear, it felt really weird having nearly a complete stranger in the car with me and my younger brother. I had no prior knowledge that this was going to happen. We had discussed me looking after the snakes for a week and then he started talking about a month, really putting me on the spot with all of this.
When I got home and looked at his snakes, they were filthy and in filthy conditions, I had to clean them, which wasn't easy and they must not have been handled much as they were all aggressive. Being bitten by all of them except for one. Now if someone got bit by one of my snakes, I would have gone and picked them straight up. Not this guy. All week he was trying to talk me into buying his aggressive snakes and pushing me into keeping them longer. And telling me all his problems about how broke he is and how he's got all these bills to pay and no one will give him a lift to pick them up. No wonder! I started to get a very uneasy feeling about this person as the week went up and kept asking him when he can arrange to pick them up.
Today this all came to a head. I needed the snakes gone as I have family arriving from Brisbane tomorrow and I just didn't feel comfortable having any further dealings with this guy. He kept saying he couldn't arrange to pick them up and couldn't I just drop them back. I told him I was busy, but he wouldn't take no for an answer and finally said I could just stick them out in the shed with a blanket over them until he could make arrangements. They would die as we don't have electricity to the shed and it's open to the elements.
With my father, I finally worked out to take his snakes back and he would give us $30 for petrol, never offered anything for when I picked them up or looked after them. Tried to fob me off with some skinks that I just found out are not even on licence, as you know I released them. We drove over there and he came out as I was getting the snakes out and him and his wife started removing the snakes before we could say anything. They quickly hurried them back inside and shut the door in front of us, he came out and said he had to get some money as he had $100 and needed to break it so we took him down to Coles. Again, driving about 5 minutes away with him in the car with us. He got some stuff and said he would be back and went over to the booze shop, me and my dad was watching him the whole time but he nicked off. This guy is not to be trusted whatsoever, obviously he has ripped other people off as NO ONE wants to deal with him. He is selling two jungles (male and female) under 5 years old, one water python female, one intergrade which looks like a jungle cross. He said he has a buyer for these, boy do I feel sorry for them.
He can come across quite helpful but DON'T trust him. He is now threatening me and I have been to the Police which will be getting in touch with him. If you wish to know more PM me privately.
