“Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn’t going to die because it wasn’t a poisonous snake… he was pretty good actually,” Beau Blake’s father, Ben,told Melbourne radio station 3AWon Friday.
The incident happened on Thursday at a residence in New South Wales, about eight hours north of Sydney, where the family was enjoying a day poolside.
“It was instant, I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom, it was completely wrapped around his leg,” Ben recalled to the station.
Beau’s grandfather, Allan, 76, was able to pull the boy — still ensnared with the snake — from the pool and hand him off to his dad.
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“It’s a freaky incident, I’ve not heard one like this before,” snake catcher Kane Anderson said, and added that people should “always treat a snake” like it is venomous.
source: people.com
