A five-year-old boy survived an attack by a 10-foot-long constrictor in Australia’s North South West. The boy, named Beau, was playing at the edge of a swimming pool in the southeastern Australian coastal town of Byron Bay when a python bit him, threw him into the water and entangled one of his legs, his father Ben Blake told 3AW Melbourne radio on Friday.
“I think the python was sitting there waiting for a victim — a bird or something — and then it was Beau,” said Ben Blake. The boy’s 76-year-old grandfather jumped to the rescue, dove into the pool and pulled the child out of the water with the hose still wrapped around his leg.
Beau’s father kicked the python off his leg and tried to calm the situation down. “I’m not a little boy, I freed him in 15-20 seconds,” he told the radio station. The boy fought bravely. “After we wiped off the blood and told him he wasn’t going to die because it wasn’t a venomous snake, he was actually pretty good.”
Pythons are not poisonous. However, the five-year-old is being treated to prevent the bite from becoming infected. The snake had been released, Blake told the radio station “Look, that’s where we live”, brushing off the encounter with the snake. “This is Australia. They’re out here.”
Source: Krone
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