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Mom awoken by cat finds python wrapped around 2-year-old daughter

El Jefe

Mark 16:18
Gotta love mainstream media (Yahoo News in this case). I've attached the picture of the article advertisment where you can see a boa....not a python. :poke:

In case you want the article:

An Australian woman was waked up by her hissing cat early Sunday to find a python wrapped around the arm of her 2-year-old daughter.
Tess Guthrie, a 22-year-old from Lismore, New South Wales, said the 6-foot python was wrapped three times around her daughter's arm.
"I thought I was having a nightmare," Guthrie told a local television news station. "It was only because the cat was hissing that I woke up and saw the snake with its body wrapped around my daughter Zara’s arm."
The toddler was sleeping in the bed with Guthrie, who pried the snake off her. But before she could, the nonvenomous python bit the toddler three times on her left hand.
"In my head I was just going through this unbelievable terror, and my thought was that it was going to actually kill her at first, because it was wrapped so tight," Guthrie told the Brisbane Times. "Her little arm was bleeding really bad from the bites, and all I could feel was blood and Zara was screaming by that stage, and I was in hysterics because it was such a shocking thing to wake up to. It was just terrifying."
Zara was taken to a local hospital where she was treated and released. The coastal python (or "carper snake") was captured by a local wildlife official and eventually released back into the wild.
"The snake [had] not in any way, shape or form intended to eat the baby," Tex Tillis, who runs Tex's Snake Removals, told the Daily Telegraph. "It was trying to have a group hug."
"Pythons, underneath their bottom jaw, have a row of sensors which enable them to see the world in terms of infrared pictures," Tillis explained. "So in the dark they're going to see a baby as this warm spot."
Of course, snake invasions are nothing new down under.
Last month, a 3-year-old Australian boy escaped injury after a collection of eggs he had found in his Queensland yard and stashed in his bedroom closet "hatched into a slithering tangle of deadly snakes."
Also in December, a childcare center in Darwin was forced to be shut down before Christmas because of a snake infestation. According to ABC Australia, snake catchers who were called in when a baby python was spotted found a nest with 23 baby pythons and 41 hatched eggs inside a wall.
 

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Inside the article was indeed a picture of a python. Half misleading is worth something, ain't it?
 

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Uh, how would a 6 foot carpet python get INTO a house? Based on the article, I'm assuming it wasn't a pet, and that's not exactly a snake that is going to be able to slither under a gap in a door, since they're pretty wide-bodied.

--Donna
 
Yep, I saw that, and went "Oh, a boa constrictor! As in, not a python!!". The guy who caught it released the snake, and said it just wanted warmth, but Yahoo! did not comment on it. I still remember an article they had a year ago that was titled "Slimy surprise found in player's helmet!" Basically, a baby corn snake was found inside a football player's helmet, the coach killed it, and said that the only good snake is a dead snake. And...slimy? I thought that myth was dispelled years ago.
 
I did notice in the article and the linked articles that the various discovered snakes were all released alive, even the venomous ones that hatched in the little boy's closet after he brought in eggs. I don't think that would happen in the USA-and we have FAR fewer venomous snakes than in Australia.
 
Yeah, all snakes would be "destroyed". If you look in the comments (actually you probably shouldn't), a lot of them are like "That snake catcher would be picking up a dead snake if I found it around my baby."
 
Yeah, all snakes would be "destroyed". If you look in the comments (actually you probably shouldn't), a lot of them are like "That snake catcher would be picking up a dead snake if I found it around my baby."

I know I started to read them and decided against it because just a few and I started to get angry.
 
"The snake [had] not in any way, shape or form intended to eat the baby," Tex Tillis, who runs Tex's Snake Removals, told the Daily Telegraph. "It was trying to have a group hug."

WTFrick?
 
I guess the media is starting to loose traction on the gun law hoopala so they need something more sensationlistic for their slash and burn journalism.
 
The snake was probably trying to get warm... If it only bit her AFTER it was disturbed, it definately had no intention of harming the child.
 
The sad thing is that the hysterical mother in trying to get it off the kid's arm, probably caused it to bite. If she'd been calm, it might not have hurt the kid at all.
 
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