The incident happened at her home in Lyons in Rice County. Police say her albino python latched onto her neck when she took it out of its cage to feed it. Her children called 911 for help.
Officer Max Bryant responded to the call. He was shocked to see the eight-foot python latched to her neck, but he quickly took the snake by its jaws, slowly prying it from her neck.
While the City of Lyons is calling him a hero, honouring him for his bravery, Officer Bryant says he was just doing his job. The snake is now with a friend because police are concerned for the safety of her children. Wilson is also being cited for harbouring a vicious animal.
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A snake is not capable of being a vicious animal; they are snakes, predators to their very core, and run almost entirely on pure instinct.
The best thought process they can manage is recognizing when it is dinner time, and being a python; they are particularly thick and after recognizing that it is indeed time for feeding, they will take a snap at anything that is warm and moving.
My little python's snapped at me five times now; not her fault - my fingers are about the size of her feeder mice, they are warm and they move. That is all a snake computes when hungry.
Calling a snake vicious is like slapping an ASBO on a boulder because it rolled down a hill and hit something.
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