N read the first paragraph of this story and refused to read any further. We were like two kids after that with me reading the story out loud while she held her hands over her ears and chanted. You have to hand it to Jessie Bonner, she could write a good horror movie. You have to read this, I dare you.
Idaho Couple's Dream Home Was Infested With Snakes
by Jessie L. Bonner - Associated Press
Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011
A clip from the Animal Planet show "Infested" about the Sessions house. 15 minutes.
Young Ben Sessions must be one tough hombre. After finding snakes everywhere in the yard, collecting them by hand and hearing them in the walls and soffits, he removed siding and found dozens more. And then … he crawled on his belly into the dark tight space under the house in order to discover the den of thousands of snakes.
· Can you picture yourself signing a document that states that the house you are buying is infested with snakes?
· Shouldn’t someone be in jail for inspecting this house and finding “no live snakes or nests”? How about not finding fouled water? Tell me that the realtor wasn’t committing some kind of fraud in this deal.
· Two years before the Sessions, different home buyers sued because the house was full of snakes. They lost; how could that be? But more importantly, how could the house be sold again?
· What kind of water well could both taste of snake musk and pass inspection?
· From at least 2009, if not before, everyone in this tiny town knew that the house was infested.
· How could the county fathers not step in and condemn this place? How about condemning it now?
· How could any human being let alone a major corporation put this house on the market without fixing the problem?
· How could any realty firm agree to list this property? How could any local realtor agree to show it? The only redeeming aspect of this story for Homo sapiens is that neighbors have begun to stop and warn anyone they see looking at the house.
· The Sessions were told that the fix would involve an entire new foundation under the house – over $100,000 of work.
The only thing creepier than the snakes in this story are some of the people involved. Sometimes I fear for our future.
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