Posted on 11/25/2022 7:56:54 AM PST by george76
A five-year-old boy in Australia has survived after being bitten by a three-metre-long Python snake and dragged into a pool.
Beau Blake had to be rescued by his 76-year-old grandfather Allan after the terrifying attack at the family’s home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, before his father Ben separated him from the snake.
Beau was swimming with his brother and “just out of the blue” the Python “decided to wrap his mouth around his ankle and they both rolled into the pool”
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He was just walking around the edge [of the pool] and I believe the Python was sitting there waiting for a victim to come along...and Beau was it.
“It was instant. I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom [of the pool] it had completely wrapped around his leg.”
That’s when Allan Blake jumped into the pool and took Beau to his father.
Ben described how it took him around 15 to 20 seconds to separate the snake from his son’s ankle, all the while trying to calm down Allan.
“I held onto [the Python] for probably 10 minutes whilst I was trying to calm my dad down, his partner down, and my two boys and then I released him.
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Python snakes are often found in Australia, Africa and Asia.
Australian pythons regularly exceed three metres. Despite their large size, some of these species survive in urban and suburban areas. Prey is captured by striking and biting, usually followed by constriction.
Last year a two-and-a-half-foot Python surprised swimmers at Hampstead Heath in north west London.
Australia is even worse than Africa...
Well, I can scratch Australia off my bucket list.
>Well, I can scratch Australia off my bucket list.
Did that 2.5 years ago. Plus you now/will need to be vaxed to get there. Not gonna happen.
Snake… machete… game over.
Don’t like snakes. Nope. Uh uh. Nyet. Nein.
Life is often interesting in the land down under. Every acre contains 100 ways to die.
I hate snakes, spiders, and sharks.
Large groups of people if that counts.
He just let go and released the snake? Wildlife protection laws?
I know an Aussie, he can’t wrap his mind around driving over the posted limit...according to him, Aussies drive 62 mph across 500 miles of unsettled outback nothingness.
I would be putting that snake into a sack and releasing it into deep into the wild...possibly for scavengers.
Maybe he “released” it.
I like snakes. And spiders. Not sharks, at least you can see snakes and spiders, and I’m too big to be dinner.
I hate it when that happens.
Ambush predator.
You can make them into luggage and boots.
Pythons are the LEAST of your threats in Australia.
The oceans there are filled with deadly threats from stinging jellyfish with poison that stops your breathing to monster sharks that often run 25 feet long.
Australia has some of the deadliest, poisonous snakes on Earth in great abundance.
Northern waterways are loaded with salt-water crocodiles in great numbers and massive size to bite you into pieces.
There are many spiders there that have deadly bites.
There is even a blue-ringed octopus that is small but has a deadly bite.
Consider cassowary flightless birds with razor sharp, three-toed feet that can eviscerate an adult human in seconds. They are known as “the deadliest bird on Earth.” They are as tall as an adult human and weigh as much. They are referred to as “dinosaurs.”
Australia has endless, beautiful beaches and clear, warm ocean water but locals swim in man-made pools beside the ocean.
Pythons aren’t just there, a few days ago, here in Florida, a python had a gator for dinner. Not a small gator, the Gator was 9 feet long...
If the gator had eaten an iguana, it would have been the swamp equivalent of turducken.
There is a simple rule to follow in Australia. All the animals you see will probably try and kill you; even the cute ones.
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