I Want to Strangle Her

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I'm not a bad guy. Not really. I can be grumpy, but I'm not even really a get off my lawn kind of guy. I don't dislike kids. That doesn't mean I want to be around them 24/7. They can be annoying if you get too much of them if you aren't used to them being around all the time. But there's this girl down the street. I have no idea how old she is. Maybe 9 or 10? I want to strangle her. No. You read that right. I really do. See, she's a screamer. And when I say "screamer," I mean SCREAMER. It's three doors down and I can hear her as if she were nearly outside my window. Granted, it's more like a bird from here. But a really shrill one, shrieking, perched on my windowsill... Nonstop. Every day. I mean, what in the literal Sam Hell could she even be screaming at??? And where are the parents? I get it, outside voice being used outside. I get it as well, it's a kid. But does she have to scream at the top of her lungs endlessly? Can't her mom tell her to shut up? Do the neighbors for half a block both ways need to be terrorized by this endless shrieking? Aren't there ordinances? I mean, if I can hear her, so can the whole neighborhood, and the mom of this annoying little screaming brat can't not hear it. Doesn't it drive her crazy? How could it not? Yes. Sue me. Hate me. Think terrible of me. But I want to strangle her to make it stop. As one guy used to say all the time when he got annoyed by something, "You're going to read about me in the news." I'm really trying hard to stay out of tonight's headlines.