Officials: Escaped pet python strangled Fla. child:
Only second to the pit bull in terms of trailer dwelling pets is the snake. Usually some kind of python or constrictor.
In this case it was an 8-foot Burmese Python that escaped from it’s impenetrable confinement of a plastic bag and a terrarium and squeezed a 2-year-old Oxnard, Florida girl to death.
The snake’s owner is 32-year-old Charles Jason Darnell, the girl’s mother’s boyfriend. Of course he did not have the proper permit to own the python. So far Darnell has only been charged with owning a snake without a permit.
I’m sorry but the only people I’ve ever known that owned snakes like pythons and constrictors are guys with mullets, 70’s mustaches and revoked driving privileges.
These animals are known to kill and eat prey that is many times their own size. If you have small kids owning an 8-foot python is not a good idea. If you do own one get rid of it and not just by releasing it into the wild.
Thanks to Misty and Catbert Pam for the tip.
Tags: asphyxiation, bad boyfriend, Burmese Python, Charles Jason Darnell, Florida, Oxnard