What's irritating me now?

[wednes]

In animal news, some stupid jackass in Florida let his python escape and it killed a little girl. Honestly, that's a crime so ridiculous it almost feels like they're using the snake to cover up a deliberate murder. What fucking moron doesn't know how to keep a snake from escaping? Oh right, the kind who shouldn't have one in the first place. In Florida, you need a permit to house a snake. Presumably, so you'll learn how to care for it properly. This asshat didn't bother to get one. Plus, when he saw the snake on the girl, he yelled at and stabbed it to get it off her. Here's the thing, if you read even one book on amateur herping, it will tell you that snakes have no pain sensors, and cannot hear sound in the air. So say again: Jackass.

Speaking of jackassery, H sent me a would be funny if it weren't so fucking sad vid of a 911 call where a guy felt "robbed" by a McDonalds. I have to say, both the guy and the 911 operators handled this badly. The caller should have been less of a stupid, selfish, immature, douchebag. The 911 op should have given the caller the non-emergency number. He didn't. Honestly, I've called 911 for non-life-threatening-emergencies because I didn't know the non-emergency number. Say, an enraged customer who has not threatened bodily harm, but whom I still want the fuck out of my store. Not a true emergency, but I've no time to go looking up numbers. Anyway, the biggest problem with this kind of behavior is that it's often cited when something like this happens.

In better news, I finished the third draft of Kiss Me Like You Love Me which, as I mentioned, is not based on anyone I know in real life. Seems to be some confusion on that, so I'm clearing it up once again. Anyway, it's perilously close to being done. Mmmmm...done.

Comments

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

I saw the python attack story earlier tonight. When you have any chance of something like that happening, you don't fuck around. You don't bring a wild animal like that around a child in the first place. But that snake had actually gotten out of its shelter earlier that week, and that owner still kept it around that child!

Do 911 operators forward calls to the right agency if they have time to do so? In any case, can you imagine being the agency gets the call from the "I was robbed by McDonald's" guy?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

As a former snake owner, I'm infuriated by irresponsible fools who let tragedies like this happen. They put all reptile owners under suspicion.

My understanding of 911 is that the operator takes the call then determines which agency to forward it to. They did send cops eventually, which is how he got arrested.