City Desk » snakes http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 From The Dept. of This Sucks http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/10/23/from-the-dept-of-this-sucks/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/10/23/from-the-dept-of-this-sucks/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:14:02 +0000 Jason Cherkis http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=7857 Jeepers. The AP is reporting that a 25-year-old Virginia Beach woman was strangled to death by her pet python:

Police said Amanda Ruth Black's husband came home around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and found her lying in a bedroom. The snake's cage was open.

Black was pronounced dead at the scene. A preliminary medical examiner's report indicates she died of asphyxiation.

Police said Black was trying to give the 13-foot tiger python medicine when the incident happened.

Animal control officers found the snake in the bedroom and are holding it at their office.

Maybe there is a reason there isn't a magazine called Snake Fancy. Apparently, pythons can kill. I always thought snakes were kinda cool as long I did not have to keep one.

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