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.

[jenni200011]

I watched a documentary once on big snakes and they said that as your pet python grows it actually sizes you up ready to go for the kill once it feels it is possible..Pythons will ofetn go for a dog or cat or even consider a small child if it feels like it can tackle the prey..Why on erth would somebody want to keep one ..They are wild creatures and should remain that way

[icyfroth]

---

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

---

Actually, we think that's where my GDD's cat Tipsy went, Sprinkles.

Tipsy was the most gorgeous kitten, white with ginger tips. He was loving and craved human attention, and he got it. Such a spoiled cat. He 'd only just grown into young adulthood when he disappeared, never to be seen again. The made up some story about him being catnapped because he was gorgeous to the distraught little girl.

Son-in-Law was grumpy 'cos they'd only just had him "done".

[sprinklespowerpuff]

Could well be, Icy. Poor little thing would have been easy to swallow even for quite a small python. Obviously your relations live near bushland. Sad.