Sunday, September 22, 2024 - A Thai woman somehow survived a terrifying encounter with a huge python after the 16-foot snake wrapped itself around her waist as she was doing dishes and then squeezed her tightly for two hours.
Arom Arunroj, 64, was cleaning up in her kitchen just
outside Bangkok on Tuesday night, September 17, when she felt a sharp pain in
her thigh and looked down to see a massive python taking hold of her.
“I was about to scoop some water and when I sat down it bit me immediately,” Arunroj told Thailand’s Thairath newspaper. “When I looked I saw the snake wrapping around me.”
The snake continued to coil around Arunroj’s waist until she
could no longer stand, forcing her to prop herself up against the kitchen door
as she screamed for help.
A neighbor finally heard her cries around 90 minutes later
and quickly alerted authorities.
Fotage showed first responders arriving to find an exhausted
and pale-looking Arunroj sitting on her floor with the constrictor still
wrapped around her.
Cops and animal control officers were forced to hit the snake on the head with a crowbar to get it to finally release Arunroj.
The woman was treated for several bites but was otherwise
unharmed physically.
The snake, meanwhile, ended up slithering away before it
could be captured, police said.
Pythons, which are non-venomous, kill their prey by
gradually squeezing them to death. While snake encounters are not uncommon in
Thailand, python attacks on humans are rare.
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