In
a case that seems to beg the description of having clearly the right man for
the right job who just really, really needed to get the proper permits, a Long
Island, New York animal control officer was caught illegally raising and
selling snakes from his garage that he converted into a breeding house. (Full Story)
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| Allegedly disabled snake dude |
The
snakes included two six-foot Burmese pythons that can grow to over 30 feet long
and are totally illegal to raise and sell.
Richard
Parrinello, who worked for the Town of Brookhaven, was caught selling the
snakes while collecting disability, which is just stupid. He had bragged online
about having half a million dollars worth of snakes in his breeding house. Officials confirmed this when they busted him
and took all his snakes.
Parinello,
who clearly likes snakes, and has epic snake tattoos on his arms (see picture
above), seems to have been in the right lines of work (breeding snakes) and
animal control. His snakes were in good
health and he clearly isn’t afraid of dangerous animals. If I’ve got a dangerous animal in my attic,
that’s the guy I want to call. I just don’t want my neighbors breeding Burmese
pythons in their garage. Which is likely
what his neighbors thought, too.
Parinello
should have taken a cue from Dean Ripa, who owns a huge snake house in Wilmington, North
Carolina, the Cape Fear Serpentarium, which
is totally legal, and works as a dangerous snake aficionado. Snakes freak me
out. Not Dean Ripa, and not Richard
Parrinello, though Parrinello went about this in totally the wrong way. He also shouldn’t have been taking illegal
disability payments.
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