I've heard they like to suck the breath out of a baby. No, wait; that's cats and it's a myth. Pythons, however, like to squeeze the breath out of a baby:
A 2-year-old Florida girl died after being strangled by a pet python that escaped from its aquarium and attacked her in her crib, police said.Shaiunna Hare was strangled early Wednesday morning by the 8-foot, 5-inch snake as she slept after it got out of its tank in another room of the house, according to Sumter County Sheriff's Lt. Steve Binegar.
Paramedics said the little girl was dead when they arrived at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the central Florida home in Oxford, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando.
Deputies told FOX Tampa affiliate WTVT that the live-in boyfriend of the little girl's mother may face charges for not having a permit for the snake, a Burmese python.
Jaren Ashley Hare, 21, and her daughter shared the home with Hare's boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles Jason Darnell, deputies said.
"The baby's dead!" a sobbing caller from the house screamed to a 911 dispatcher in a recording. "Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby."
There's probably a moral to this story somewhere but I can't find it.
Posted by floridacracker at July 3, 2009 05:14 PMSaw that online and heard about it on the radio too. Not an easy death to deal with, at all.
Posted by: Gmac at July 3, 2009 10:43 PMAll I could think of when I heard of this story was "How natural that a snake should try to eat a hare."
Posted by: Starla Darling at July 5, 2009 08:44 PMYou can educate those who care to be educated, but stupid is forever.
You just can't fix stupid......
Posted by: Mike The Bike at July 7, 2009 12:48 PM