A three-times-his-size python bit, constricted and dragged a five-year-old Australian youngster into a swimming pool.
Beau Blake was swimming at home when he was attacked by the 3 m (10 ft) long lizard, his father informed a local radio station.
Still entangled, the pair were hauled from the pool by Beau’s grandfather, and his father, Ben, freed his son from the beast.
However, Beau is in high spirits and only sustained minor injuries.
“Once we cleaned up the blood and reassured him that he wouldn’t die because it wasn’t a venomous snake, he was pretty good,” his father Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday about the event that occurred the previous day.
Ben added that the family, who reside in the New South Wales coastal town of Byron Bay, would observe the bite wounds for signs of infection.
Despite the fortunate escape, he described the dramatic narrative as “a trial.”
“[Beau] was only going about the pool’s perimeter when he was attacked by a python that had been waiting for a victim, and Beau was it.”
“I saw a large black shadow emerge from the bushes and wrap around his leg before they touched the ground.”
Allan, Beau’s 76-year-old grandfather, leaped into the pool and gave the boy and snake to Ben with “zero self-preservation.”
Ben stated, “I’m not a child, so I got him released within 15 to 20 seconds.”
Ben kept the python for approximately ten minutes while urgently attempting to soothe his children and his father, before releasing it back into the surrounding foliage.
He returned to the scene of the crime, the scoundrel.
Ben informed the radio station that pythons are a feature of life in the area, which is around eight hours north of Sydney, stating, “Look…this is Australia.”
