Man bites python, survives epic three-hour struggle
source: http://itn.co.uk/news/a707bfb3b07968f381f12339bc22bcab.html
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A Kenyan man has survived a mammoth scrap with a python that lasted a whopping three hours, after the snake wrapped itself around him and yanked him up into a tree. He managed to survive after biting it on the tail and smothering its head with his t-shirt so it couldn't bite him.
"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," Nyaumbe told a Kenyan newspaper. "I had to bite it as I struggled, one hand incapacitated," he said.
He managed to pull out his mobile phone and call for help. When policeman and his supervisor arrived, they tied a rope around Nyaumbe and the python and pulled them both out of the tree.
The 13ft snake was captured and taken to a sanctuary but escaped and remains at large. Could a rematch be on the cards?
"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," Nyaumbe told a Kenyan newspaper. "I had to bite it as I struggled, one hand incapacitated," he said.
He managed to pull out his mobile phone and call for help. When policeman and his supervisor arrived, they tied a rope around Nyaumbe and the python and pulled them both out of the tree.
The 13ft snake was captured and taken to a sanctuary but escaped and remains at large. Could a rematch be on the cards?
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benson5
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The phrasing of the story is awesome "the snake was taken to a sanctuary but escaped and is still at large" as if its an actual fugitive. Is that the mugshot the police are issuing? I love the fact the police are still searching for it and want to arrest it.
Kind of puts a cute spin on really scary story
- 3 years ago
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benson5
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ClareW
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What a brave guy! How did he have the strength to wrestle with it for three hours?! More to the point, how did it have the strength to yank him up a tree?!
- 3 years ago
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ClareW
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tallmansam
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bloody hell! you dont hear that to often, someone biting a snake!
glad he survived!
- 3 years ago
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tallmansam
