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Snakes in a Theatre

Okay...first of all. I have no intentions of seeing the new scary movie "Snakes on a Plane"

I don't like snakes. I'm like the Indiana Jones of the newspaper.

One of the scariest things I've ever seen was the Waurika Rattlesnake Roundup.

Now...not only do I know want to see this movie, I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to see anything in a theatre for a long time.

Apparently...two kids let two real rattlesnakes loose in a theatre during a showing of the movie.

Good.....God.

First of all...I don't care what kind of snakes they are. That's retarded. I'd have peed my pants faster than you could possibly imagine had one of those snakes crawled over my foot. They have rides at Disneyworld like this....where you "think" something is there, like rats running by or whatever.

But it's not the real thing. It's not a real snake. These kids need to be beaten within an inch of their lives for a dumb stunt like this. I'd volunteer for the job. Just give me a snake-skin boot to kick their kneecaps with.

Secondly...these snakes could have killed somebody. Not injured..they could have killed. These kids should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

Probably one of the dumbest stunts I've heard in a long time. How do you even get a hold of 2 rattlesnakes and release them without getting bit yourself.

Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona movie theater during a showing of the new film "Snakes on a Plane," according to Local 6 News.

Authorities said pranksters released the young venomous rattlesnakes in a dark theater at the AMC Desert Ridge near Tatum and Loop 101 in Phoenix.

The two snakes caused a panic in the dark theater, according to the report.

"That to me is very scary," herpetological association representative Tom Whiting said. "I would hate to be watching a movie about snakes and have a rattlesnake bite me."

Wranglers were called to collect the snakes, the report said.

No one was injured in the incident and, so far, the culprits have not been caught.

Officials believe the snakes were smuggled into the theater in backpacks.

"This thing is under someone's chair and they go to sit and they just push your foot in the air and startle it -- obviously all they got to do is startle this thing," Phoenix Herpetological Society spokesman Daniel Marchand said. "It's dark. They can't see you, you know that well. If it's scared, boom it strikes."

The snakes were released into the desert.

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