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Speaking of snakes, we had another snake story up here yesterday. This getting way too common, that i am now checking the dunny every time I sit down, especially in my downstairs office.
Massive 6-foot python wraps around teen’s leg while he is on the toilet
A SUNSHINE COAST teenager received a massive scare when a six-foot python wrapped around his leg while he was on the toilet.
Matty Holdsworth
Sunshine Coast DailyMARCH 21, 20189:25AM
A MOUNTAIN Creek teenager had the fright of his life when a six-foot python wrapped around his leg ... while he was on the toilet.
Snake Catcher Noosa’s Luke Huntley said the whole scenario was one of the more amusing catches of his career, for everyone bar the teenage boy.
Mr Huntley was called out at 11pm to shift the “grumpy” python.
“The boy said he sat down on the toilet, and this cold thing wrapped around his leg,” Mr Huntley said with a grin.
“He managed to shake it off luckily and I was called out.
“The snake was just looking for food and water. He knew he was cornered and felt like he had to defend himself.”
Trying to catch this snake was a shit time.Source:Supplied
Mr Huntley said it was the larger end of the scale for pythons.
“It had a really big head and was quite chunky,” he said.
“Luckily the boy didn’t get bitten. I’ve been bitten by one of these before and it absolutely canes. When they latch on it can cause all sorts of trouble.
“I had to be very careful when I picked him up.”
Mr Huntley and most snake catchers have had their hands full of late and said eight out of 10 snakes were caught indoors.
While Mr Huntley arrived at the scene in a matter of minutes, the snake was lurking in the only toilet in the house, so the poor teenager had to “hold on”.
Moments before William Pledger was bitten.Source:Supplied
The news comes as a snake catcher who felt nothing after a bite collapsed hours later from venom.
Early last month, William Pledger, an experienced snake catcher from Gympie, was called to a property in the rural Queensland town to get rid of an eastern brown snake.
The metre-long snake whipped around and latched onto his hand.
“I didn’t feel the bite at all,” he told the Gympie Times, referring to the snake’s fangs that had pierced his knuckle.
Mr Pledger assumed it had been a “dry bite”, a misconception that snakes can bite without injecting venom.
It was only after his persistent roommate encouraged him to go to hospital that Mr Pledger went.
A second hospital test confirmed he had a deadly combination of neurotoxins, mycotoxins, and coagulants in his bloodstream.
Eight hours later, his kidneys had started to shut down.
“They were looking at putting me on dialysis to save my life,” Mr Pledger said.
He said if he hadn’t received the antivenene, “you would have been going to my funeral today”.
