An Australian boy survived an encounter with a 10-foot-long python after being bitten, constricted and dragged into a pool by the snake late last week.
Beau Blake, 5, was playing on the edge of an in-ground pool in New South Wales when the python darted out of some brush and bit the child on the ankle, his father, Ben Blake, told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday.
“It was instant,” Mr. Blake told the radio hosts. “I saw a big, black shadow come out of the brush, and before they hit the bottom [of the pool], it was completely wrapped around his legs.