Brazilian saves grandson from anaconda

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 66-year-old Brazilian saved his grandson from the grip of a 16-foot-long anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour, police said Thursday.

"When I saw the snake wrapped around my grandson's neck I thought it was going to kill him," Joaquim Pereira told the Agencia Estado news service. "It was agonizing, I pulled it from one side, but it would come back on the other."

Pereira's 8-year-old grandson, Mateus, was attacked by the anaconda near a creek on his grandfather's ranch in the city of Cosmorama, about 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.

While the boy was playing with friends, the snake attacked and wrapped itself around him, police officer Hudson Augusto said. Anacondas are not poisonous, but kill their prey by coiling around them and squeezing until victims suffocate.

"It brought me to the ground and bit me," the boy told Globo TV, which showed footage of the dead snake. "Then it started crawling up my neck and began suffocating me."

Mateus' friends ran to get his grandfather, who reached the scene and battled with the snake until it released his grandson.

The boy was rushed to a hospital and needed 21 stitches on his chest where he was bitten.

Police said anacondas are not uncommon in the region, but attacks on people are rare.

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[DeadPoolX 9]

Wow.

You certainly don't hear about that (an anaconda attacking a human) everyday. I guess this snake was really hungry, or something...

At any rate, I'm glad the kid was okay. That would've been a terrible way to go.

[jordanianprincess 0]

I don't know why but I though an anaconda would be able to kill someone in a matter of a few minutes. I can't see how the kid survived if the anaconda has a grip on him for 30 minutes.

[Sinergy 3]

Sometimes they will play with their prey before killing it. That might have been the case with this boy. Thankfully it didnt kill him as fast as it could have.

[ARodrigues 0]

Wow....I can't wait to visit Brazil..I'm not sure I'll take the cat now, though.

We're naming our son (due in May) Mateus.

[almaty 19]

whoa...damn.

[eric&gen 0]

What i say when i wake up in the mornings damn lol

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I don't know why but I though an anaconda would be able to kill someone in a matter of a few minutes. I can't see how the kid survived if the anaconda has a grip on him for 30 minutes.

No, an anaconda is--like the python, of which it is a semi-distant relative--a constrictor.

It can actually take hours for it to constrict large prey (such as deer, pig, human) to death.

THe ones that can kill a human in a matter of minutes are the venomous ones such as elapids (cobra, seasnake, krait, mamba, coral snake and the majority of Aussie snake species) and viperids (tic-polonga, gabon viper, rattler, cottonmouth, fer-de-lance).

[eric&gen 0]

Im more like a sea snake when i wake in the mornings. No im between an anaconda and a python about the same size no wait coral snake?

[jordanianprincess 0]

I don't know why but I though an anaconda would be able to kill someone in a matter of a few minutes. I can't see how the kid survived if the anaconda has a grip on him for 30 minutes.

No, an anaconda is--like the python, of which it is a semi-distant relative--a constrictor.

It can actually take hours for it to constrict large prey (such as deer, pig, human) to death.

THe ones that can kill a human in a matter of minutes are the venomous ones such as elapids (cobra, seasnake, krait, mamba, coral snake and the majority of Aussie snake species) and viperids (tic-polonga, gabon viper, rattler, cottonmouth, fer-de-lance).

So then I guess the movie anaconda wasn't a good source of info.

[eric&gen 0]

Its not snakes on a plane they got the movie wrong its Eric's big snake on a plane lol

[Ladylethal 12]

Anacondas don't usually attack humans, and also, they're slower on land than they are in the water. Either way they don't wrap and sufocate their prey that fast, they do it slowly and continuously.

This is the first time I've heard of an anaconda attack in Brazil. There used to be this urban legend of one that ate an indian boy but later it turned out to be a hoax, and the pictures shown was of an anaconda that had just swallowed a baby calf.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

An anaconda is--like the python, of which it is a semi-distant relative--a constrictor.

It can actually take hours for it to constrict large prey (such as deer, pig, human) to death.

THe ones that can kill a human in a matter of minutes are the venomous ones such as elapids (cobra, seasnake, krait, mamba, coral snake and the majority of Aussie snake species) and viperids (tic-polonga, gabon viper, rattler, cottonmouth, fer-de-lance).

So then I guess the movie anaconda wasn't a good source of info.

Ranges between "spaghetti western" accuracy about life in the old west (marginal, at best) and typcial Bollywood movie accuracy about life in India (you'd be working in negative numbers here).