on 25-03-2014 03:56 PM
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.
on 25-03-2014 03:58 PM
Now I know why I don't have one as a pet.
on 25-03-2014 04:14 PM
@grandmoon wrote:Now I know why I don't have one as a pet.
omg lol...
on 25-03-2014 04:20 PM
Only deadset idiots have these these things as 'pets".
on 25-03-2014 04:52 PM
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 !
on 25-03-2014 04:55 PM
on 25-03-2014 06:05 PM
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
on 25-03-2014 06:27 PM
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.
on 25-03-2014 06:48 PM
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 .
on 25-03-2014 07:21 PM
Pythons should not be kept as pets in confined spaces. Only an idiot would do that.
No sympathy for her, but for the python.