Grandfather fights young grandson free of 15 ft anaconda's grasp

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

The latest installment in the “man vs wild” survival stories, which have always fascinated me for as long as I can recall.

Joaquim Pereira was driving home when he heard the screams of Matheus and his cousin Flavio, 8, who ran to get help.

Pereira jumped into the ravine and grappled with the snake, which started coiling around him as well.

“I started fighting the animal and tried to loosen its grip on the boy’s neck but the snake was too strong,” Pereira told the Bom Dia newspaper of Sao Jose do Rio Preto.

Pereira then attacked it with stones and a machete.

“I kept hitting it with the machete but it felt like a rubber tyre, it wouldn’t tear,” he said.

He killed it after a long struggle to free the boy, who needed 21 stitches on his chest where the snake bit him.

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Drat. Too late for an edit. Should’ve clicked all of the margin links for all the goodies. Like the sobering picture of the imprint in the mud left by the dead snake.

[Mangetout]

I’m confused… If he killed the snake, why is there only an imprint in the mud?

[The_King_of_Soup]

@Mangetout

I’m confused… If he killed the snake, why is there only an imprint in the mud?

Because he killed the ghost snake! Instead of Boo! Boo! it says Boo-a! Boo-a!
I know, Mangetout, but a heretofore-insignificant old man is, for a day anyhow, a hero. Please let him be one. I may easily ask for the same indulgence some day, on much scantier evidence.

[Bewildebeest]

@Mangetout

I’m confused… If he killed the snake, why is there only an imprint in the mud?

King of snakes meet The King of Soup.

[Ogre]

Seriously, I would not be surprised at all if a 15-foot anaconda makes a lot of soup and sandwiches for his family.