Posted on 02/08/2007 5:08:19 PM PST by Kitten Festival
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A 66-year-old man saved his grandson from the grip of a 16-foot-long anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour, authorities said Thursday.
"When I saw the snake wrapped around my grandson's neck I thought it was going to kill him," Joaquim Pereira told Brazil's Agencia Estado news service. "It was agonizing, I pulled it from one side, but it would come back on the other."
Pereira's 8-year-old grandson, Mateus, was attacked by the anaconda while wandering near a creek on his grandfather's ranch in the city of Cosmorama, about 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.
While the boy was playing with friends, the snake attacked and wrapped itself around him, police officer Hudson Augusto said. Anacondas are not poisonous, but kill their prey by coiling around them and squeezing until victims suffocate.
"It brought me to the ground and bit me," the boy told Globo TV. "Then it started crawling up my neck and began suffocating me."
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Stuff like this may happen in Florida with people releasing their too large Python pets.
PETA ping
Too bad the snake didn't eat the peta people.
If a snake were trying to kill my grandaughter, I would use my teeth and my acrilic finger nails, anything I could find.
THAT is a BRAVE Grandfather!
Geesh!
One HALF HOUR hacking away at that HUGE snake!!!!!
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