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kenneth Yates of South Carolina

once i see i have made a mistake i owe up and say i did. i also do not believe i owe kevin a dime because he lied and i did send the snakes we agreed on and he has not sent any proof of death of the ones he speaks of
 
You know, I was going to close down this thread, but maybe I should just start charging admission instead.

If any of this stuff ever gets to court as evidence, I know without a doubt that I will get fined heavily for running a children's online nursery without a license.

Unbelievable........
 
I did have a part time job at a fast food place, yes. What, just because I worked at a fast food place temporarily, that makes me less of a person?
No, it certainly doesn't make you less of a person....just less of a surgeon. If you're working in fast food, it's reasonably safe to assume that you don't have a educational background in veterinary medicine. Therefore, you probably don't have the slightest clue of the anatomy (nerves, blood vessels, etc) that you're hacking through while making these snakes safer for keepers who are too lazy to develop the skills and responsibility needed to work with unaltered animals. Of course, you also wouldn't have access to an autoclave to sterilize your surgical equipment, antibiotics, analgesics or isoflourane.
...but why sweat the small stuff, huh?
 
Has anyone seen my yellow pail with the red shovel? I left them in the sandbox right over where kennyboy was playing last night and now I can't find them. That was my very favoritist pail in the whole wide world!!!

I want my pail and shovel.......wahhhhh

Wes Pollock
 
Back in the sand box I GO.

Just a thought Kevin appears to be having a lot of people jumping him in e-mail and other forums and wants to blame the high visability people who disagree with him.

Perhaps though his enemies are a little closer to home then he would suspect. He has brought a great deal of open publicity to the Venomoid issue an issue that many people who make these mutilated animals and sell them would probably care NOT to have brought in to the light. Bringing issues up that affect there business and possibly have legal ramifications against them and monetary loss to them would be incentive to really dislike the person who brings it so openly out in the publics eye's.

Just a thought???????

Scott Bice
 
Just to get it all on track again...

Can anyone else see all the contradictions that O’anus has posted up to this point?

From O'anus, page 1
The first box we opened contained green and black mambas, 4 of the greens were extremely cold and dead, the black was also cold and dead

From O'anus, page 27
I have two witness that were here when I unpacked the snakes, we layed all the dead snakes in an empty box and took a picture after we had went through everything

From O'anus, page 41
I took the pictures right after the snakes were upacked.

From O'anus, page 22
I took a picture of the dead snakes right after they were unpacked

From O'anus, page 61
AFTER all the snakes were inspected and in a warm room, then we took care of the boxes and took pictures of the dead snakes

From O'anus, page 86
There were only 3 in the picture because the others had heartbeats, so they were put in a warm room right away to try and save them

From O'anus, page 76
Up to this point only 2 out of the 7 greens have survived. The fifth green died later on

From O'anus, page 77
sorry, I forgot to answer about the other mamba, there was a heartbeat still present

We go from four dead green mambas, to a picture taken depicting three dead greens, to the fourth regaining a heartbeat to die later on after the fifth one had died.

Four dead on arrival, leaves three alive.
The fifth green had a heartbeat and was warmed up and died later, yet O’anus stated on page 77, when asked about the fourth dead mamba being absent from the picture, that it had miraculously come back to life and would explain why there are only three in the picture.. Yet four were confirmed dead and stiff by three people.

Kevin himself is not too sure just how many animals arrived dead or alive as can be seen in his own words.


From O'anus, page 25
There was rigormortis setting in on the mambas, that brought another question that was discussed between us when we were unpacking them, when exactly they died?

From O'anus, page 69
there was only one green that didn't have rigormortis when it was unpacked. That made me wonder exactly how long they had been dead. It lead us to wonder exactly when they died. the black and two of the greens were extremely stiff.

From O'anus, page 76
What I meant by really stiff, was that they were stiff starting at about 6-7inches up to the head.
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O’anus is also not sure on how much, if any of the bodies of the ‘dead’ green mambas or the one black mamba, were actually affected by rigormortis.
They go from the black and two greens being extremely stiff to just setting in, to only 6-7 inches up to the head.


From O'anus, page 27
Or how about sending me the money back for the greens and calling it good???

Noone] will ever refund the price of five animals when the purchaser himself is not entirely sure how many actually arrived dead and only three were depicted in a picture.


From O'anus, page 32
it is simply a case of showing all points of your claims accurately and with definate proof,

From O'anus, page 53
I think that before anyone decides to post a bad guy post on here, they should have all the pictures,emails, and facts ready to go before attempting it.



In seeing your own words in the above two quotes, perhaps you should take some of your own advice.
Your story here has been full of holes and many unanswered questions since the very first post.

You can not keep your story and your lies synchronized very well.
You can not clearly state how many animals did arrive dead, as that number changed on page 77, from four to three.

You clearly haven’t been able to keep the story of the rigormortis from post to post very together either, as it has changed from extremely stiff, to just beginning, to only partially, at the heads, upon arrival.

You dodge direct questions from everyone and upon answering them, show that you can’t keep the lies nor the act of a truly honest individual straight enough to be able to not tell more lies.

One big question remains, that you can simply answer a yes or no to.

‘Is the person in the picture, holding the snakes, Ritchie Rich?’

My next question to you sir, is after the next quote.

From O'anus, page 86
I do not have the dead ones here

The dead snakes were told (by O’anus) to be in a friends outdoor freezer, not at his own residence.

My question is this.
Is the person whoms freezer they are in, Ritchie Rich?
 
simple question

if kevin can perform surgery (lol) then can't he tell us the medical facts and help us to understand rigormortis. he should be able to with his vast knowledge about this simple medical issue, shouldn't he? please answer this kevin if you will
 
kEN DROP IT

Dude let the dog lie ... those fleas you have ar not worth dragging this out further WHO cares you reputation is still <font color=red>[bleep]</font> you charcter is still <font color=red>[bleep]</font> so dont try to butter burnt toast man leave this thread where it belongs in the bowles of the BOI
 
wilomn said:
Has anyone seen my yellow pail with the red shovel? I left them in the sandbox right over where kennyboy was playing last night and now I can't find them. That was my very favoritist pail in the whole wide world!!!

I want my pail and shovel.......wahhhhh

Wes Pollock

hey wes
the last time I saw your pail was in your mamas back yard in the sand box. i had to move it when she and I were playing!
 
So, Ken is a moron who cannot package a snake correctly for shipment.

Kevin (which may, or may not be his real name!) is accused of being a producer of venomoids.

Someone seems to have created a bogus posting on another site in Kevin's name, misspelling the name of his mentor???

And now, Ken is turning every other post into an insinuation about someone's sexuality or a reference to his own ... "behaviors?"


This may very well be the DUMBEST thread in the history of the BOI!!!!! I am ashamed to have contributed to it, even to the degree I have, and, having read the last fifteen or so pages, I am quite certain that my I.Q. may have actually dropped by a few dozen points!

This thread is so stupid, it makes my hair hurt! PLEASE ... let's let this whole thing sink to the bottom where the bottom feeders can consume it into non-existance!

I'm done ... I'll now go and play with matches, run into traffic, clean my nails with a chainsaw, or some other activity of higher intellectual persuit.
 
don't email me, post it here with your sign showing. i mean if you are going to be a assshole show everyone: here's his signed message:This is the message:

That's really funny, considering it is coming from what may well be the dumbest person I have ever encountered in this past year!

You may not be the stupidest person in the whole world, but if you're not, I would lay real good odds that you are close kin to whoever is! Probably through several different lines of geneaology ...

All in all, you have provided some simple entertainment, but too much simplemindedness is not good for the old brain power. So, to you Sir, I bid goodbye!
 
Ken...Your rebuttals to even the silly sandbucket attacks do not help your cause any. They just make you look even more foolish. Both of you people have proven to anyone who can think for themselves, that you aren't worthy of anyone's business in any degree. It is not clear who is at fault for the death of these snakes or even really if they are indeed dead. But what is clear is that both involved parties should be avoided by anyone who prefers not to be involved in scandal. Once again, if he didn't get a necropsy done on every "dead" snake showing exact cause of death and time of death and can't prove that any dead snake he produces for the court is indeed one that was shipped by you, then he has no case. Let it drop. He failed to document the events as they unfolded properly and that is his fault. Some people are trusting and trust worthy and in most cases like this people can work these things out fairly easily...but here we have 2 shadey characters locking horns and no way for an outsider to tell who is right and who is wrong...so...the accuser MUST prove his case. If he can't ...sorry, no case. Maybe the bad guy here is going to get off easy due to poor documentation and lack of necropsy...maybe not...maybe the bad guy here is getting scammed by a badder guy....who knows? Justice does not just happen because it should. It happens when involved parties produce proper proof as evidence.
 
Hello all. This is my first time gracing the BOI. My name is James. I was unfortuanly previously employed by Ken along with my fiance Anja. We had the covers thrown over our heads during the time of employment with Elite. We backed Ken on other situations thinking we were in the right to trust him. But we now know better. I would have posted this sooner but we have just gotten settled in here in Arkansas and our internet up. On the date 11/24/03 we were no longer affiliated with Elite Reptile. We were told the reasons were that Ken no longer wanted to continue in the business, and thatwe werent bringing in enough money to cover payroll, but that is kind of hard to do considering we were not allowed to buy any resale animals he insisted we start buying future breeders. Ken proceeded to lie to us and tell us that we would still be paid and be employed b/c of the fact that he is to scared of people in person. After we left his house (still supposedly employed) we went home to find an email stating that we were dismissed from the business to cut costs. So as you can see he seems to enjoy being dishonest and to lie. All of those venomous animals (which ken had NO experience with WHATSOEVER!!) were not cared for at all after we were dismissed. Mardi stated they had no water, and that some of the duck tape we had put on the cages for transport over to kens house on 11/20/03, looked as if they had never been opened. When Ken posted the ad, we did email him to let him know some of the things he had posted for sale he did not have. As for the Black Mamba in question, that is her, she was every bit of 5-6FT, and CBB01. Ken never saw this animal in person when she was at our house other than her head sticking out of her hide box. So far Ken has done nothing but burn his bridges, our car is damaged due to his sons wreckless driving and backing into our car, which Ken stated he would pay for, that happened on 10/12/03, and the vehicle was never taken care of except for things WE paid for and were not reimbursed for. While his animals were being housed at our house they racked up a $500+ electric bill, which has never been reimbursed to us. He did state we had cages belonging to him in our possession which should "cover it all". We have 5 old, used 2ft Neodesha cages worth about $30 each that we had borrowed from Ken. He thought we should call it all even with the cages. The car damage alone was $1250.

Ken basically cost us everything. We lost our house, income, most of our animals, and some pride as well. This coming from a man who called us family. We have learned a very hard lesson.

Kevin, I would say that you will more than likely not be reimbursed for your losses. For that I am sorry that I could not help to prevent that. But myself and Anja have had no way to contact people or keep up to date with these things on the net until today.

I would like to stated that I dont believe that any of our customers that were gathered for Elite were unhappy with the animals that were provided to them "FROM US" being myself and Anja, not Ken. We tried very hard to overcome the bad name Ken had gotten for Elite before we came on board. Myself and Anja pride ourselves in our animals and the animals we provide people. I know this makes me sound like I am trying to proclam myslef as perfect which I know im not but thats how I have always handled this business for the simple fact that I love doing it. And I enjoy it when I sell an animal to an indivdual and make them happy with what they have recieved.

As for Ken, my own opinion is "do not do business with this man". He is a scam and in it for the money. This industry has been black balled enough by people of his nature. I only wish I knew this before. We knew nothing of his true expeditions in the criminal side of his businesses until after departing from Elite and South Carolina.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to email us.

Thanks,
 
WOW

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This is my first time gracing the BOI.

ANJA and james are the ones who showed me the BOI.

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We were told the reasons were that Ken no longer wanted to continue in the business, and thatwe werent bringing in enough money to cover payroll, but that is kind of hard to do considering we were not allowed to buy any resale animals he insisted we start buying future breeders.

I hired them both for their expierence and they did a GREAT job. The problem is I paid them 1000.00 a week salary on the simple condition they were to make the company money(seeing how that is how companies survive)

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All of those venomous animals (which ken had NO experience with WHATSOEVER!!)

You both LOVED Venomous and that is the ONLY reason i bought them and I paid you to care for them. you know a JOB

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While his animals were being housed at our house they racked up a $500+ electric bill, which has never been reimbursed to us.

you mean one of my rental properties don't you that you never payed the deposit on and owed one months rent still and left the house beyond NASTY

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This coming from a man who called us family.

EMPOYEES!!!!

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s for Ken, my own opinion is "do not do business with this man". He is a scam and in it for the money. This industry has been black balled enough by people of his nature. I only wish I knew this before. We knew nothing of his true expeditions in the criminal side of his businesses until after departing from Elite and South Carolina.
If not to deal with me and Elite then do not deal with JLA Creations (James and Anja) because they were employeed to run my entire company. they were in charge you all can take it from there


i am just responding to this because people are mad because they did not do their job correctly and were fired
 
I'm going to hate myself in the morning for even trying to glean any truth here, but......

FOR KEN:

I hired them both for their expierence and they did a GREAT job.
i am just responding to this because people are mad because they did not do their job correctly and were fired
Which is it? Great job, or job done incorrectly?
Ken proceeded to lie to us and tell us that we would still be paid and be employed b/c of the fact that he is to scared of people in person. After we left his house (still supposedly employed) we went home to find an email stating that we were dismissed from the business to cut costs.
Is that true? Did you fire these people via email while they were on their way home?
our car is damaged due to his sons wreckless driving and backing into our car, which Ken stated he would pay for, that happened on 10/12/03, and the vehicle was never taken care of except for things WE paid for and were not reimbursed for.
Is this true?
Ken never saw this animal in person when she was at our house
So they were paying rent and utilities on a place that you owned but was being used to house your animals? I'd love to see how that lease was written up. You DID have a lease, right?

FOR JAMES & ANJA:

you mean one of my rental properties don't you that you never payed the deposit on and owed one months rent still and left the house beyond NASTY
Is this true?
 
Hello, I normally would not post a thread on this but after reading this last thread I just have too..... make my comments heard.....

Does Mardi Snipes still live in Florida and own Coastal Reptiles? Did he drive all the way to Greenville SC to bag these snakes? Did I miss something or what? We lived in SC for a short time and know quite a few people there who know of Kenneth. Ken you are wrong - sorry - but you are wrong!! How do you sleep at night? With a gun under your pillow?! (I bet) Do you know Steve Bennett and Wade Kowanoski? Do you know Leroy Adams? Do you know Ricky Walters? Ken you owe Kevin money or snakes plain and simple! After this last thread I read from one of your previous employees (yes I am sure he is upset with you and you will come up with some lame excuse as to why you let them go) I am most definetly believing Kevin's side of the story and agree with everyone that you are wrong! WRONG!

TO Kevin - You definetly need to take legal action with this deal. If you need any help, I will drive to SC and file the papers for you! I know my way around Greenville very well.

Ken the reason that you are in the wrong is because nobody would pay that kind of money for dead snakes. The customer should be able to open their package and recieve a healthy live animal for their purchase. Your not selling them a dead snake - you are selling them a live snake - He is entitled to his money back or replace the animals with live healthy animals.

Sincerely,
Beth & Paul Moody;) ;)
 
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Which is it? Great job, or job done incorrectly?


They did a Great job, seriously. they only got lazy the last month or so and i had to let them go

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Is that true? Did you fire these people via email while they were on their way home?

this is the email they sent me the day after they left from our shop

So I guess you dont want us working for you afterall. Well, sucks but oh well. Anyway, I just wanted to know, please tell me that we arent going to be kicked out of our house because all this didnt work out? We have already lost enough. Now we have to try and find jobs. I wish things could have ended better, but they didnt. Please respond to this and let me know. We arent going to pester you about anything. It seems you wont this relatioinship over period. So myself and AJ will let it be as that. We arent going to black ball your name or anything of that nature. Just dont take the house. Anyway, after you respond if you do, we will leave you be. Good luck with everything, and I hope your family things are able to work theirselves out.

Thanks,
James

this is the second and third emails and I have all of them. I did let them go the day after james speaks of and yes most of the discussions was via email and phone

We got our electric bill today, almost $500 for the period of time we were housing the Elite animals. I'm sure we will have to move out of state since there are really no jobs here for us. We will give Jennie plenty of notice but I don't even know how we will pay rent next month much less the care deposit now. I had completely forgotten about the deposit. We are selling all of our personal collection animals now just to take care of bills at this time which I'm sure where will be where the rent money will come from.

Its pretty ironic that we got David that job and now he has a job and we don't. We sacrificed everything for Elite. Oh well life goes on right? Good luck with your future endeavors.

I also NEED to get my car repaired as soon as possible. You had said you would take care of it. Just wondering if your still planning on doing so.

AJ

----- Original Message -----
From: kenneth
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Hi


friends okay

-------Original Message-------

From: Anja & James
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:06:16 PM
To: Ken
Subject: Hi

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o they were paying rent and utilities on a place that you owned but was being used to house your animals? I'd love to see how that lease was written up. You DID have a lease, right?

FOR JAMES & ANJA:

They had a lease. the lease was completely sperate than my company and they did me a FAVOR to house the nens at their home for a few weeks and we all figured at 1000.00 a week what is a littke power bill

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Is this true?

sorry can not answer due to what they typed in this thread of future court, sorry

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you mean one of my rental properties don't you that you never payed the deposit on and owed one months rent still and left the house beyond NASTY
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Is this true?

truthfully, the house as far as nasty it ranks in the top 10 out of all the rentals i have. 26 bags of constructions size garbage bags. anyone need to see pictures. i place the trash out for pick up this friday and can do that?

any more questions I will be happy to post truthfully!!
 
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