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| Seven-year-old girl saved from being dragged off by anaconda |
| 2008-01-07 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO - A seven-year-old girl has been saved at the last moment from being dragged off into the Brazilian jungle by an anaconda, when a quick-witted young man hacked off the snake’s head. The girl was only slightly harmed after being dragged off by the nine-metre, 200-kilo reptile which coiled itself round her legs and had effortlessly begun dragging her off, media reports said Sunday. The young man - identified only as ‘Miguel’ by taxi-driver witness Raimundo Carvalho - used a machete to lop off the snake’s head. The reptile twitched for several minutes before finally dying. The reports said the girl had only slight injuries and shock after the incident last Wednesday in Alca Viaria district close to the provincial capital of Belem in northern Para state. ‘I just didn’t know what to do,’ Carvalho told G1 news portal of the drama he found going on when he heard the girl’s desperate cries for help. ‘Then, thank goodness, this young man called Miguel came on the scene and cut the animal’s head off.’ The snake - which would have killed by constriction - had already dragged the girl several metres. Such attacks by anacondas are on the increase in the Brazil’s Amazon region. Experts put the blame on |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #10 I don't understand that beheaded several minute 'twitch' of the snake?? Did it take several minutes to loosen it's grip on her, or held the grip for several minutes then 'sprang' her loose? And I thought they squeezed you to death first then dragged you off to drown (the double whammy)? |
| Posted by: smn 2008-01-07 20:32 |
| #9 South Florida has Burmese Pythons. People with more money than brains import them as pets, find they can't manage them and dump them in the Everglades. |
| Posted by: mom 2008-01-07 17:07 |
| #8 The world's largest living lizard, the Komodo . . .. Oh, wrong story, this is about a snake. |
| Posted by: Chusong Grundy6409 2008-01-07 12:23 |
| #7 All your little girls are belong to us. |
| Posted by: Anaconda the Snake 2008-01-07 10:09 |
| #6 When I read anaconda, I first thought southern Florida. Oh, and BTW, machetes down there are razor sharp. I actually saw men mowing lawn grass with machetes. That impressed me. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-07 08:32 |
| #5 A taxi driver that happens to have a machete handy. Note to self: Tip him well next time. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-01-07 03:35 |
| #4 Hilderbeasts may also be on decline in New Hampshire. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-07 01:08 |
| #3 How about putting the blame on conservation efforts that have increased the number of these animals in the wild. Check out the Souther California newspapers on mountain lion attacks. Cause and effect. Nature gets it. Liberals don't. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-01-07 01:04 |
| #2 Reptiles or PETA? Hmmm, I am in a conundrum. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-01-07 00:48 |
| #1 PETA files lawsuit in two hours, "Cruelty to Animals" (I know it's a reptile, they're stupid) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-07 00:42 |