Man bites python - and lives!

A Kenyan man bit a python - and survived to tell the tale!

Malindi, April 15: A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said.Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya`s Indian Ocean coast.

"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told a news daily. When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it." The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help. When his supervisor came with a policeman, Nyaumbe smothered the snake`s head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled. "We both came down, landing with a thud," said Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising. The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into. Bureau Report