Welcome, July! Just when you thought this had all run its course…an albino eight foot long Burmese Python (c’mon, you saw it coming) strangled Shaiunna Hare, aged two, in Oxford, Florida.
An excerpt from the 911 call: 
The baby’s dead! Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby. She got out of the cage last night and got into the baby’s crib and strangled her to death.
While this is quite unfortunate and sad, I am finding the numerous news reports titled “Strangled To Death” a bit saddening in themselves. I expect more from alleged journalists than idoitic redundancy. Journalists: the definition of “strangle” is “to die from interference with breathing” or “to choke to death by compressing the throat“, a definition, I might add, that the Burmese Python illustrated perfectly.
PS – The snake’s owner, Charles Jason Darnell, did not have a permit for the animal, which all FaithfulReaders will know, is required by Florida law.
