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Cops: Man chopped head off pet Boa, set fire to house

A landlord-tenant argument apparently contributed to a chain of overnight events in Central Islip when a renter decapitated his pet snake, lit a gas-fueled fire in an occupied home and threatened a relative and others with a knife, Suffolk authorities said Saturday. "It was a strange and bizarre thing," said Larry Maxwell, the landlord, who was awoken late Friday in his smoke-filled home on Branch...

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