Please before you forward the story read the following:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/ballpit.asp
This will show you not only is this story that has been going around emails for a very long time... NOT TRUE...but it will explain how it really could not happen with snakes.
I will agree that ball pits are nasty places though since they are filled with germs and that can be just as scary. Kids will sneeze, cough, wipe their hands on runny noses and touch everything. It has been known that kids can throw up in not only ball pits but the slides they have in the indoor gyms of these places. My kids saw a child going to the bathroom in the corner of the top section one time. Needless to say I quit letting my kids play in them.
pk
