Pythons Up Over

Glynn Buell of Lincoln, Neb., decided his 12-foot, 50-pound Burmese python was too much to handle when the snake bit him on the wrist, squeezed off the circulation in his arm, and bit him twice more. “If she would have gotten around my neck, I would not be alive right now,” Buell said. He escaped with the help of a police officer who responded to his cries for help. Local officials are trying to find the snake an appropriate home — Buell doesn’t want it anymore. Meanwhile, in San Diego, Calif., Mary Anne Carter woke up to find the family’s 9-foot Burmese python had wrapped itself around her eight-months-pregnant belly and had a death-grip attachment to her butt. Her husband, Brad, and a neighbor tried in vain to free her. “We used a crowbar to try to get its mouth off her. We had a good 15 minute struggle,” Brad said. “It was two grown men and we weren’t getting nowhere with it.” Paramedics who responded to the scene couldn’t get the snake to let go of her rear either, so they cut off its head. All but the snake are fine. After it was over, Brad lamented, “I’ve been begging her for years to let me get a snake. We finally found one and look what happens.” (AP) ...Brad, if you think the snake chewed her butt, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.