Pet python strangles US toddler

[great lover]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8130282.stm

A pet python broke out of its holding tank and strangled a two-year-old girl in the bedroom of her home in Florida, local authorities said.

The 8ft (2.5m) albino Burmese python had also bitten Shaiunna Hare on her forehead several times.

Charles Darnell, the snake's owner and boyfriend of Shaiunna's mother, stabbed the python and prised the child away, but she died before paramedics arrived.

Authorities removed the snake from the home after obtaining a search warrant.

Officials said Mr Darnell did not have a permit for the snake. He could face child endangerment or other charges.

 

[great lover]

The Government should not allow folks to keep wild animals at home!




Does anyone suspect foul play?


Snakes are bad. MMkay...

 

[unregistered]

 

[where]

The Government should not allow folks to keep wild animals at home!




Does anyone suspect foul play?


Snakes are bad. MMkay...

no foul play, just stupidity.

My brothers gf had a 16 foot python and most of the time it was fine, but it got her cornered in the bathroom once. Sadly, she got away.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

That's sad. My kid has a whole zoo including what's now a 40" banded milk snake...



People just get carried away...

Remember the boa/python almost doing in Marlin Perkins?

 

[Killswitch]

I brought home a gartner snake as a pet when I was a young boy. Later that same day my dads best friend died. He blamed me for it. Because snakes are evil or whatever. One time when angry he let it slip. I'll never forget that.

heh

 

[great lover]

The owner should be summarily shot.

Maybe forced to do community service for 10 years. What was the owner thinking?


The python's harmless. I'll let my kid play with it for a while!

 

[great lover]

no foul play, just stupidity.

My brothers gf had a 16 foot python and most of the time it was fine, but it got her cornered in the bathroom once. Sadly, she got away.

The python or the girl-friend?

*snicker*

 

[where]

The python or the girl-friend?

*snicker*

the girl. trust me. she was a psycho bitch

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Already heard a killer parody song about it to that KC and the Sunshine Band song Shake Your Booty. But the hook is amazing...

Oh Snake, Snake, Snake. Snake, Snake, Snake. Ate Your Baby, Ate Your Baby

 

[Byron In Exile]

Remember the boa/python almost doing in Marlin Perkins?

He always waited in the Jeep after that...

"I sit in the Jeep while Jim subdues the tiger."

 

[SubforRent]

Can we blame this on Obama too?