Second time round for snake killer

Second time round for snake killer
12:00a.m. 4 January 2008
By Amy Remeikis

A 26-YEAR-old Deception Bay woman was flown to a Brisbane hospital today after being bitten by a snake on Moreton Island.

Energex Community Rescue Helicopter spokesman Colin Brown said the woman was coming out of the bathroom of her holiday accommodation about 1.45pm when a 1.8m carpet python latched on to her left leg just above her ankle.
"Its fangs went into her leg and it then wrapped itself around her," he said.

"A man had to kill the snake to get it off her because of the fangs in her leg and it was that tightly wrapped around her as well.

Mr Brown said the woman was attacked in Cowan Cowan, on the western side of the island, just north of the Tangalooma Resort.

She was airlifted by the Energex Community Rescue Helicopter and taken to Redcliffe Hospital in a stable condition.


Care flight crewmen with the snake that bit a woman on Moreton Island. She was airlifted to Redcliffe Hospital in a stable condition.

http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/jan/04/second-time-round-snake-killer/



O.K lets kill the snake and airlift this women to a hospital even though it is a carpet python. No wonder she is smiling.

Killing it thats wrong! I hope her leg falls off.

That's awful, I understand the carpet python might have been a pain to remove from your leg but by no means is it a killer. There was no need for the poor thing to be killed.

Holding it up like that, like it's a trophy is plain wrong !!! I'm so angry now

This whole story sounds doggy people. Any python will strike out defensibly but will not hold on, as a foot is not a prey item.

Yeah I am going to request an airlift because my corn snake bit me today.

haha well it's good that you're seeking medical attention straight away !!!

You know how dangerous those corns are