Pet python strangles US Toddler 11:35 GMT, Thursday, 2 July 2009 12:35 UK | LINK
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.
Everglades breeding
According to police, Mr Darnell said he had put the snake in a bag in an aquarium container on Tuesday night, but awoke the next morning to find it missing.
Bobby Caruthers, from the sheriff's office in Sumter County, central Florida, said Mr Darnell "ran immediately to the infant's room" and discovered "the snake on the child".
"He also said he observed bite marks on the forehead of the child," Mr Caruthers said.
Wildlife officials say they are growing increasingly concerned by the proliferation of pythons in the Florida wilderness.
It is believed that some have been released by pet owners who can no longer care for them.
The snakes are breeding in the Everglades, where they have no natural predators.
Burmese pythons can reach a length of 16ft (5m) and live for 30 years.
The US Humane Society told Associated Press news agency that at least 12 people have been killed in the US by pet pythons since 1980, including five children.
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Well, some folks do not need to live among people. These folks should be in the zoo. How does a so called responsible parent allow a pet snake in the same house with a child? This is murder!
Some years ago in some state ,someone got tired of their pet snakes and dumped them in a state park
lots of pythons discovered in a temperate climate where they are not normally found.
Thank God the authorities were able to capture some of them.
Another man vacated his apartment without his pet python which had broken lose and vanished.
A woman moved in shortly and was taking a shait and godzilla was nibbling at her gluteus
The snake had somehow gotten into the plumbing and was about to crawl out of the loo
walahi,after I heard that story I didn't use the toilet in the dark for a long time.
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But, this woman, why would you be shaiting in the dark in the first place?
I mean..I don't get it..
Auspicious.
at night na
when you are doing pee pee at night or in the early morning do you turn on the lights?
Or I forgot,you have to aim
we sit
I don't want to wake up completely na
so I feel my way to the bathroom and back
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Anyone seen snakes on a plane???
Till date i don't pee when am on a flight except it is absolutely necessary......Most times i do it before leaving the airport so i don't have any cause to get up
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Anyone seen snakes on a plane???
Till date i don't pee when am on a flight except it is absolutely necessary......Most times i do it before leaving the airport so i don't have any cause to get up
LOL
I hate snakes
death to all ssssssssssssssnakes
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Hahahahahah @ Lateesha. I just dey try imagine person (Man) dey shait with him dangling blokkos next thing if he look he no go shit plus Blokkos again eeeeeeewwwwW
Fear fear Ph3y! Its just a movie jare
Have u seen snake on a train? That one na proper craze film wey one of the snakes eventually chop everything come swallow the train join (for real o) so hiding 4 u o!
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I run into snakes all the time in my outdoors adventures, with the exception of the known aggressive breeds, they're mostly docile unless provoked and are actually pretty fascinating to watch (from a safe distance!) I've taken some cool pictures/videos of them recently
I've just never understood the concept of keeping ANIMALS, WILD ANIMALSas pets!
There is a reason they are called animals. I just feel for the innocent little girl. What a way to die!
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