Python grabs child and drags him into family pool - but Grandad saves him

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Just had to be Australia. Lovely country. Great scenery. Amazing wildlife. Some of which just wants to kill you.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-63699886

The python seems to have been stalking the boy and dragged him into the pool but his Grandad jumped in and pulled him out.

If it's not snakes, it's spiders. If it's not spiders, it's crocodiles. And if not crocodiles, it's sharks.

Shock horror, humans are not at the top of the food chain for some animals.

Ben then held on to the python for about 10 minutes as he desperately tried to calm his children and his father, before releasing the snake back into the vegetation.
"He went back to the scene of the crime, the naughty thing."

This is what I just can't understand. Why would you release the snake back into your own garden, where it could easily attack the child again?!

I am not sure how easy it is to hold on to a python?

He seems to be doing ok in the photo. It says he released it, rather than he couldn't hold it any longer.

The way he's holding it in the article?

Actually I think they were refreshingly pragmatic about it and very respectful of the snake and the habitat they share with it! Hats off to them.