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dulce_3t_decorum_3st t1_ixs99k7 wrote

Drowning must be a terrifying way to go, but drowned by a python is next level hardcore

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AmethystOrator OP t1_ixs7fx1 wrote

TL;DR

> All of a sudden, Blake said, he saw the snake emerge, and the next thing he knew, the snake was "completely wrapped around" his son's leg and they were spiraling into the pool. He later told Australian news outlet 9 News that the python had wrapped himself "from the bite right up to around his knee joint."

> That's when his 76-year-old father literally jumped in to save the day. Within seconds he was in the pool, grabbing both the boy and the snake, still entwined, and handing them up to Ben. The father separated the two after about 15 to 20 seconds, he said, saying "it was somewhat of an ordeal."

> "I just grabbed it as close as I could to the head, squeezed and pulled," Ben Blake told 9 News.

> The boy was attacked just days before his sixth birthday, his father said, but has been doing OK after his father and grandfather told him the snake was not venomous.

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[deleted] t1_ixsmyt7 wrote

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AmethystOrator OP t1_ixsne6z wrote

No, the grandfather is 76. He's the one who jumped in the pool and got the boy (and snake) out.

We don't learn how old the dad is. He's the one who separated the child from the snake.

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NightFeatherArt t1_ixu39og wrote

Read that like the snake saved him somehow and went "Good snake."

I am not a smart man.

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Choppergold t1_ixsgl09 wrote

5 year old son and 76 year old father

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AmethystOrator OP t1_ixsgx58 wrote

The 76 year old is the grandfather actually, the article isn't as clear as it could be. He jumped in first and then the father separated the 5 year old from the snake.

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MerelyMortalModeling t1_ixtoump wrote

Fucking Australia.

Only thing motr hard core then a fucking python trying to drag your kid to his death is a 76 year grandfather diving in and attacking said python.

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Intellegent_Stub t1_ixtqbeq wrote

This has to be the most Australian thing ever

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sonofthenation t1_ixulp31 wrote

How did Australia all the sudden become Florida? Good grandpa. Reminds me of Bluey’s Granddad.

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