‘Horrified’ schoolboy wakes to find PYTHON wraps around his arm
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: A child from Australia experienced a true nightmare after he woke up to finding a non-venomous python wrapped around his arm. The python, estimated to be atleast one-meter-long bit him twice.
Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation said the incident took place on Wednesday, February 8 at around 1.30 am in Whiteside, north of Brisbane. The traumatized child, however, woke up his parents for assistance before incurring any serious injuries.
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Father unwrapped python from son's arm
The child's father unwounded the python from his son's arm before the snake could have incurred further injuries, Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation said in a statement which they shared on Facebook. Although non-venomous, the snake was identified as Morelia Spilota Mcdowelli. The snake had bitten the child twice before it was separated from him.
'Young fella is ok and just very shaken'
When the child's parents called the hospital, the staff suggested that he should travel there so that his wounds could be treated. "Young fella is ok and just very shaken," the father of the child said. However, the identity of the father-son duo hasn't been revealed. "They realize this was an act of self-defense by the snake," the spokesperson said.
The snake catchers warned the public against jumping to conclusions that the snake "deliberately went after the child", and instead shared that the snake would have been slithering over the child while asleep in bed. The child would have moved in his sleep because of the sensation of the snake slithering over him and most likely rolling on the snake causing the snake to feel threatened. So to protect itself, the snake wrapped itself around his arm and bit him twice on the hand.
'Hope the young boy isn't shaken up too much'
"Aww poor lil man, would have given him a hell of a fright and the parents at that time of the morning, hope he makes a speedy recovery," users reacted on the post shared by the Whiteside Snake catchers. One more wrote, "My worst nightmare (have a huge fear of snakes and follow a few snake catcher pages to try and overcome it...at one stage couldn't even look at a drawing of one). Hope the young boy isn't shaken up too much. Glad dad was able to pull the snake from the boy without doing damage to the snake. Lucky it was just a python and not a brown...."
'What a guy as he still didn’t kill the snake, most people would have'
One more user wrote, "I need trauma counseling after reading this, my worst nightmare, what a brave dad who probably overcame his own fear to protect his son, and what a guy as he still didn’t kill the snake most people would have, and Brisbane North Snake Catchers and what a kind and generous offer from you to go back and help this little boy, bless your kind soul."