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Friday 12 February 2016

TF? Father let's his kids play with huge 19ft pet python (photos)

Eric LeBlanc, 43, loves reptiles so much he lives with hundreds of snakes and lizards. A fire at his reptile store killed some of his animals so he moved the rest into his home where they frolic with his kids. Despite the danger the animals could pose he has no problem allowing his three children Erica, three, Larry, four, and Katie, seven, to handle them.



“The worst bite my daughter got was from a bearded dragon,” said Eric.
“My son got bit in the forehead one time by a ball python when he was around two-years-old.
“He opened one of the tubs after me and basically startled it – the python jumped up and bit him on the nose.”

His store is undergoing repairs and while the reptiles live the family, he is trying to raise his children to have no fear of them.

He said: “They make great pets. They don’t have fleas and are low maintenance so you don’t have to take them to a vet regularly like a dog or a cat.


“I have Shelby a seven-year-old albino lavender reticulated python – these are some of the biggest snakes in the world.
“Obviously the bigger the snake the bigger the teeth, so it’s dangerous – but Shelby is very placid. She is over 19ft long and believe me I know what she is capable of.
“When you hold her you can feel her moving you – she is like one big muscle.
“When she is playing with the kids she really pulls them.
“They can really feel the strength of her – you’ve got to have total respect for these animals and that’s what I have.”



He doesn't seem to be putting his children in danger however as he insists they are safe and won't leave them without supervision. He said: “In this country everybody has an opinion.
“Some people think it’s safe for kids to shoot guns.
“I won’t let my kids shoot guns but I’m comfortable with them being around reptiles – I guess we’re all pretty individual in how we bring our children up.”
“My kids have been bitten by pythons and dragons but they’re always fine,” added Eric.
“Growing up I was bitten by snakes, dogs and lizards but my biggest accident was when I fell from a tree – anything can happen – kids will be kids.”



He says the children now know so much about snakes they can tell different kinds snakes apart and know to leave them alone or approach them.
Eric also owned a 7ft 2ins crocodile monitor lizard called Jellybean, which was allowed to play with his children – unfortunately he died in the fire.

107 comments:

Unknown said...

Oooo ooo I ve phobia for things like this. I am scared already

Big Ass said...

Like play like play snake go won chop!

Unknown said...

Snake and aligator...Hmmmm.

#LibBadBoy

olayemi Grace said...

Hmmmmmm!!! Scared

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Is this a real python?? I have huge phobia for anything in connection with snake kingdom. Crazy man.

Unknown said...

Ewww,disgusting! I hate reptiles...

moss said...

Snakes ke. Not in Nigeria sha o.

Unknown said...

i hate snakes.



#XENO-FABIAN.

Unknown said...

Is this even legal? Animals aren't predictable! They might snap one day as use them for food oo..ummm

Unknown said...

I can't ooooooo

Unknown said...

Madness in practice

Unknown said...

Seen

Anonymous said...

hmmmmm* phobos

STERN said...

STUPID MAN

Debbie Chelsea said...

Jesus...warristhis?

Unknown said...

Issorite



AJ MAIN BOY...

Unknown said...

They will soon show you why they are called animals.

blaq said...

Ewwwww!!!!! My worst nightmare

Bolt said...

lol... Olorun maaaaje oooo! I prefer lion abeg. Sna.. Wetin?

gentle said...

Thank God he's not my dad. I would have been paralysed with fear evry day.

Unknown said...

Nice. I wanna own a snake too

gentle said...

Thank God he's not my dad. I would have been paralysed with fear evry day.

Unknown said...

Whtever dat rocks his boat for his family best known to him.

Unknown said...

Wen e happen make him no regret o.

Anonymous said...

Obviously not a poisonous snake.

Unknown said...

Ok

Anonymous said...

God forbid! This man is quite insane, he needs deliverance. May God deliver those kids he has already initiated.

kirianscooter kirian said...

Enter your comment...dis is seriouz al diz white pple self

Unknown said...

Chineke!
















#iT wiLL oNLy geT beTTer
#It MuSt enD iN prAise

Unknown said...

I hate snakes with passion!

Unknown said...

Abeg, I don't like this

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Ewwwwwww...can't even stand d pictures


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Unknown said...

Na wa oooo

Timi Da Uyi said...

This guy don mad finish sha...My God!

Don Smith said...

Madness in its original form.

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vivychoco said...

Trmw now wen d python kills and feeds on himmnd his kids. Dem go begin call Satan.mtcheeeeeeeeeews

Jules blog said...

NAwa ooo. They will soon start dreaming about them and getting traumatized.









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Unknown said...

Tufiakwa!!! Marine spirit. More Instagram followers for you

Unknown said...

God forbid. This guy is sick mehn




I will neva take such risk







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Unknown said...

God forbid bad thing!

NEYOZI said...

Wonders shall neva seize

chidi akachukwu said...

Issokay oo I pray make that day no come...Believe

Unknown said...

The man is crazy

#KING_KHALIFA said...

This guy is terribly sick,how can u make a reptile a pet, one day it will swallow his kids

Esther said...

Wonder shall never end.

Unknown said...

Mehnnnnn,dis is crazy

OMIDAN ABBY said...

Lol
Receive some brain!
This looks scary to me. I hate reptiles..
Very soon, they'll bite ur kid's ass no b only forehead and nose..

Unknown said...

This is evil.snake is not your friend.Sure he belongs to the snake kingdom.

ChrixNovella blog said...

tufiakwa..God forbid

Unknown said...

They are tamed creatures. BTW pythons move freely in most villages in Anambra state, Nigeria even inside houses without harming families, they are like pets
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Unknown said...

Enter your comment...nawa for dis kind of lifestyle, living with snakes and other dangerous reptiles in same house? God forbid



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Anonymous said...

Animal are Animals please Linda get in touch with the stupid father and tell him so...nuel

Unknown said...

This is not funny

@Hairbykubsblog said...

that's the same thing that will kill him. playing with danger

Unknown said...

Holy jesus

Unknown said...

Snakes? They shud be tagged the most dangerous family ever liveth

Unknown said...

Snakes? They shud be tagged the most dangerous family ever liveth

U-C-J said...

He must have know the venomity of the snakes before doing this but even at that not wise shaa.
Linda mee k'anyi fu anya! @uchemacj

Chichi said...

Oga keep it up.u dey try ewu zambia

Unknown said...

believe me wen I say,did man belongs to a secret cult .not evry thing d eyes sees are normal.







DONT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!

MJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ said...

God abeg ooo, shuo

Unknown said...

Noted

Emmanuel said...

End time things

Unknown said...

Enter your comment...Akuko Uwa n'uju!.....wich kin rough play b dat na....he shud b kiaful oo

Unknown said...

Ewww....gross!! Creepy creatures my worse enemy.....

Ken Obaz said...

Hmm.. Dis man is playin wit fire o. Wel u neva c anytin!

Unknown said...

not funny, unless someone wants a divorce

Okaro said...

When thee Devil will use those animals against himself and his household then he will know they are animals without conscience and reasoning but only Instinct and which is mainly for survival.

They can choose to kill at any given time

Jude Akinwole said...

Ki le le yii!!! Kojooo

Unknown said...

God forbid

Adaobilinda her sexcellency said...

Orisirisi things I hear everyday..i can't withstand snake not even crocodile. They re trying

Unknown said...

One day....the story won't be the same... Ijs

Unknown said...

Orishirishi

Unknown said...

I like your style
Anybody that criticise you can go to hell!.
While some shoot guns,some steal,some do drugs and so on

michael George (the Fulani Prince) said...

Wow. One day Na one day. This animals are wild in blood no matter how u domesticated u groom them

Unknown said...

Blood of God!! Agwo!? Nna this is a very funny family..

Unknown said...

I like your style
Anybody that criticise you can go to hell!.
While some shoot guns,some steal,some do drugs and so on

Unknown said...

No way

Unknown said...

Dis is ridiculous...
Dis man should be administered in a psychiatric hospital...


#FINEST

Unknown said...

What rubbish is?even dragon kwa,from where did he get that frm...

Eddy Ogbunambala said...

Jisie ike

Hessaawards2019.com said...

Upon all the bites and threats to life..? I can never try such!





Long Live LIB!

Posh Queen said...

So sickening.

Anonymous said...

Yeye people.jumbo

ebere gold said...

Choiiiii! Scary. #inlov with LIB.

Unknown said...

Still lovin Snakes.

andre kelvin said...

White ppl shit.

Unknown said...

Lol no be person go tell am wen e happen.


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Anonymous said...

Please you guys should calm down joor, dat is just a ball python and its one of the friendliest snake you can see... Its even safer than d dogs u keep in your homes .... Nigerians always overreact when they see a snake

starshine said...

Ok o. May God help you

Unknown said...

Akuko aba


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Adaobikamma said...

Hehehe he is putting the innocent kids in danger.

Unknown said...

The man should go and domesticate a kormudo dragon ... The most ferocious reptile on earth ... Make we see the outcome

Unknown said...

WORD!!!

Gold's place said...

This is just playing with fire and trusting the fire not to burn you. Shaa, oyibo people and their sense.

Unknown said...

safe or not, i wont near

Unknown said...

Tufia....never......me hatibg dis




#spritual

Anonymous said...

This man is totally mad oooooooo
God those kids don enter on chance

Unknown said...

Orishirishi.

Unknown said...

Orishirishi.

Unknown said...

Am yet to see a black man like me try this. Snakes???? Never!! Kill @ sight! In my place we don't kill python but I kill it!

Unknown said...

Please where is their mother...

o.o said...

He's definitely a stupid man

DashenDuch said...

scary

Unknown said...

Lols

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Unknown said...

Playing with reptiles hmmmm so scaring

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