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Originally Posted by CFrance
There are tons of people who have snakes as pets. Never heard them labeled as stupid before.
Again, this sounds like a bunch of young people trying to scare others. Keep walking and ignore them. It's not a dangerous snake, just scary to come upon if you haven't had experience with them. Perhaps you should contact the sheriff or whoever supervises the officers who told you they could do nothing. There might be something that can be done. The officers could have been wrong. Or lazy.
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I believe the Brownwood Town Square area is in the police jurisdiction of Wildwood.
Every time I read that someone reported an objectionable activity to the police and that the police said they couldn't do anything, the police showed a lack of imagination.
In this case the police should have talked to the snake owner and discussed the ramifications of Florida Statute 823.01 which says "
All nuisances that tend to annoy the community, injure the health of the citizens in general, or corrupt the public morals are misdemeanors of the second degree..." It is broadly written. All that is required is that the presence of the snake in the town square area "tends" to "annoy" the community. The police officers themselves could be the complainants.
This discussion would most likely result in the immediate departure of the snake owner and the snake from the area.