Man bites python

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday.

Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.

"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.

When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."

The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled.

"We both came down, landing with a thud," said Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.

The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into.

(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Jack Kimball)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_python_odd

Originally Posted by lovin2act

NAIROBI (Reuters) – When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."

The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.


(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Jack Kimball)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_python_odd

Am I the only one that had to stifle a laugh at the mental picture of this?
I realize it's not funny, but sometimes my mind creates a pic that is just hilarious...what do you say to the person on the other end of the phone?
"Listen, I can't go into details right now, but I'm in a tree by the gooney goo-goo river with a python wrapped around me...send help...no, you can't miss me, the snake is huge--and bleeding from where I bit him. Yeah, just look up & you'll see my feet..."
Sorry, I have a strange sense of humor, I know. That, and the muscle relaxer I took has kicked in...

No I am right there with you

And what was it some type of new "Leopard" python that drags its prey up into tree's before eating? The whole story seems....suspect.

But it was worth a laugh...thanks for sharing!

Yes it was! Very welcome

I thought it odd also. Then I started to wonder what kind of cell phone coverage do you get in the back woods of NAIROBI?

This entire story has a sound of bordering on the ridiculous.