https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfEufqpfM8

A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.

Beau Blake was enjoying a swim at home when the 3m long (10ft) reptile struck, his father told a local radio station.

The pair - still entangled - were pulled from the pool by Beau's grandfather and the boy was prised free from the animal by his dad Ben.

But Beau is in good spirits and escaped with only minor injuries.

"Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn't going to die because it wasn't a poisonous snake... he was pretty good actually," his father Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday about the incident that happened a day earlier.

"He's an absolute trooper," Ben added, saying the family - who are based in the coastal town of Byron Bay in New South Wales - would monitor the bite wounds for signs of infection.

Despite the lucky escape, the dramatic saga was still quite "an ordeal", he said.

"[Beau] was just walking around the edge [of the pool]... and I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along... and Beau was it."

"I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom, it was completely wrapped around his leg."

With "no self-preservation whatsoever", Beau's 76-year-old grandfather Allan jumped in the pool and passed the boy and snake to Ben.

"I'm not a little lad... [so] I had him released within 15-20 seconds," Ben said.

Ben then held on to the python for about 10 minutes as he desperately tried to calm his children and his father, before releasing the snake back into the vegetation.

"He went back to the scene of the crime, the naughty thing."

Ben told the radio station pythons were a fact of life in the area, about 8 hours north of Sydney, saying "look...it is Australia".


@lasticala

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699886

Snakes are not pets.

Australia

That continent is blessed with unapologetic wild creatures. From animals to insect, they got no mercy!

Scary things.....

La la species too like to cause trouble

If na for Naija now that python for dey inside pot now with pepper and onions with the op tagging lalasticlala with the heading "lala, food don done.
Vote wisely next February.

These people have keep on giving me reasons to call them fish brain

A snake that nearly dragged a five year old boy into the swimming pool is not dangerous and poinsonous

The snake get luck say na for Australia he go try that nonsense.
Make he come try that for Naija and realize say Nigerian snakes go carry grace…

By now, him go don dey process to poo.

"He went back to the scene of the crime, the naughty thing."

This sums up the Australian attitude.

The snake lives to strike another day. Trust my naija people, that snake for don become pepper soup wey dem for use cold beer take wash am down.

The young boy must be terrified. The dad is a very calm man, to meticulously untangle this snake and be having a chat and measuring session with it.

It’s not about landing inside a good pot for me cuz I don’t see reptiles as edibles. The way I’ll smash and grind that snake eh. It will regret ever been in existence.

Front page straight.

This snake get pure luck, make hin ask hin conrades for Nigeria say how far

Like this now for Nigeria, this snake would be like 2 more minutes to cook well

Released into the vegetation bawo, what if it decided to bring his goons and older ones to your house again, something wey you behead and burn

The python will not live to tell it's story in naija...

he released a muderer?
he would have attacked a human being for trying to kill his grandson oh..
this lie no balance at all.
if na me, by now the meat of that python will be cooling in my kitchen.

THE BOY WILL LIVE

All weird, strange and deadliest of animals lives in Australia.
My only problem with them and the sole reason I can't live there is that government still allow their citizens keep deadly animals as pet.
So even if one doest keep deadly animals as pet how about your neighbors that have wild animals as pet?
Wild animals are unpredictable and can't be domesticated. I don't know why people don't get this.
God forbid that kid had died the blood should be on the parent head.
God should ask them why they were that stupid

TobiAbuja:


It was a wild python not a pet.

it doest take away the fact that Australians likes to keep wild animals as pet.
Check YouTube and see many of their weird lots there

Mercury12:
All weird, strange and deadliest of animals lives in Australia.
My only problem with them and the sole reason I can't live there is that government still allow their citizens keep deadly animals as pet.
So even if one doest keep deadly animals as pet how about your neighbors that have wild animals as pet?
Wild animals are unpredictable and can't be domesticated. I don't know why people don't get this.
God forbid that kid had died the blood should be on the parent head.
God should ask them why they were that stupid

It was a wild python not a pet.

Wicked venom less snake

Damnnn niggar

Ben then held to the python for about 10 minutes as he desperately tried to calm his children and his father, before releasing the snake back into the vegetation.

Last last them release am back into vegetation

Australia self, and they didn’t even kill the python for me I will shoot off the damn head of the snake if there are not guns, then will cut the head off.

Australia and python be like tinubu and emilokan

Its non poisonous. Our concern right now is how to liberate agbado munching urchins from perpetual slavery like this woman who was forced to live her business to attend rally of their oppressor to continue oppressing them beyond 2023

The most dangerous snake in the world dwell in Australia

Bluntguy:
If na for Naija now that python for dey inside pot now with pepper and onions with the op tagging lalasticlala with the heading "lala, food don done.
Vote wisely next February.

Yes...we will vote, so long as it is not Obi, Atiku or Tinubu

Another day

Another time

lol