‘Horror Movie’: How Cops Saved Man With 18-Ft Python Wrapped Around His Throat
The family of a man who escaped the grip of an 18-foot python when a quick-thinking police officer shot the snake in the head say the horrifying ordeal began when the man’s snake suddenly turned on him.
First responders in Upper Macungie Township in Pennsylvania responded to a call shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday about a person in cardiac arrest, only to find an even more frightening scene: a young man lying in his house with an 18-foot-long reticulated python coiled around his throat.
With the snake’s midsection wrapped twice around the victim’s throat and once around his body, a police officer had access to its face—with a careful shot, the cop shot the slithery assailant in the head and pulled the young man to safety.