Internet has NO sympathy for man bitten on the face by python as he tried to take ‘close-up’ pic
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A Queensland man paused to record a python before it viciously attacked him. Joey Zayne was trekking through the Behana Gorge on a weekend when the slithery reptile on the tree unexpectedly lashed out at him while he stopped to record it.
“A beautiful snake just above the Behana,” he said to the camera in a video he has since posted to social media. But the python wasn't pleased with being on camera. The eight-foot-long reptile bit him on the face and a few seconds later, the little bite wounds began to bleed profusely, 7News reported.
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'Deserves what he got'
Blood was "pouring out" of his wound, Zayne said while holding a T-shirt over it for the camera. “It’s coming out really quickly,” he said. Enraged social media users took to the comment section, while one wrote, “I’m feeling fine. It’s just crazy how much blood.” "Why he put himself in striking range... too close and scared the poor thing so it what is natural and defended itself..Enjoy nature from a distance and keep your head away.. sigh" another commented. Another user wrote, "Deserves what he got. After all you're in their territory respect them." Another chimed in criticizing the man's action, "Especially large pythons they usually docile asf what did he do to that poor snake", Someone added, "Sorry serves him right respect the reptiles and leave them alone."
Australian pythons lack venom
Snake handlers alerted the public to be very vigilant. “If you see a snake, you know, just give him a wide berth,” David Walton from Cairns Snake Removals said.
The environment department echoed the warning in the 7 News, “if snakes feel threatened, they can become defensive”. “Snakes do not attack or bite for no reason,” Walton said. “They have to really feel the need to give a defensive response in a vulnerable situation,” Although Australian pythons lack venom, they do have many long, sharp teeth.
This incident comes a month after an Australian boy was bitten twice by a python after he discovered it wrapped around his arm when he woke up from sleep. The child's father unwounded the python from his son's arm before the snake might have experienced additional harm, Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation claimed in a statement which they shared on Facebook. Even though it was non-venomous, the snake was identified as Morelia Spilota Mcdowelli. The snake had bitten the youngster twice before it was taken away from him.