Pet python strangles Melbourne woman while she’s on the phone

[grandmoon]

A MELBOURNE woman is in hospital after her pet python wrapped itself around her neck while she was on the phone last night.

The 53-year-old woman had been playing with her pet python as she spoke to her relative in her home in Melbourne’s east before the two metre-long snake wrapped itself around her neck a number of times and started squeezing tightly.

Struggling to breathe, the middle-aged woman managed to pull the snake off her before calling triple zero just before 8pm.

“She had neck injuries and was suffering a headache and blurred vision due to the fact the snake had been wrapped so tightly around her neck,” paramedic Jason Pitman said.

“Between myself and my partner, we have more than 35 years’ experience and neither of us have ever been called to a case like this.”

She was transferred from Box Hill Hospital to Melbourne’s Eye and Ear Hospital last night, and is in a stable condition.

The python is back in its enclosure.

[grandmoon]

Now I know why I don't have one as a pet.

[icyfroth]

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@grandmoon wrote:

Now I know why I don't have one as a pet.

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omg lol...

[sprinklespowerpuff]

Only deadset idiots have these these things as 'pets".

[icyfroth]

At my daughter's place in Mackay they have one in the shed, been there for years. No way I'd have one anywhere near the house tho. Even the shed's too  close for my liking !

[sprinklespowerpuff]

For sure, Icy. Hope they haven't got any small pets. Might find them down the thing's gullet one day.

[*pepe]

that's what morons get for keeping wild animals as pets.

there should be more animals doing what comes naturally to their captors, maybe it will make people think twice

[lionrose.7]

I did a inspection on a Unit that had a big python in a tank, they also had a 2 year old boy!!

They told me the Python got out once and did not seemed the least bit concerned.

I can not believe how stupid people are some times.

[*pepe]

there was a toddler in america suffocated to death by a constrictor or python that got out of its tank.
the parents were sentenced to jail for it, yet some still consider them pets .

[bright.ton42]

Pythons should not be kept as pets in confined spaces.   Only an idiot would do that. 

No sympathy for her, but for the python.