Blog 5

Grandfather fights 16-foot snake to free grandson
In Sao Paulo, Brazil a kid was saved by his grandfather from a 16-foot-long anaconda attack. Using only rocks and a knife injuring the snake for over half an hour.
Pereira was 66 years old, and Mateus an 8 years old was attacked while wondering in his grandfather's ranch around a creek in the city of Cosmorama. About 400 kilometres northwest of Sao Paulo.
He was attacked while he was with his friends, the snake rapped it's body around Mateus's neck. A police officer explained that the Anacondas are not poisonous but they simply rap themselves around the victim suffocating them.
The boy on the other day told Globo TV that the snake brought him down to the ground then bit him on the chest, then after it slid to his neck and started suffocating it.
After the boy was attacked his friends quickly ran to his grandfather. Then he battled it with a knife and some rock for his son. After about half an hour it got injured so badly it released the boy and slid away.
Mateus was then sent to the hospital quickly where he got bitten it needed 21 stitches.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/08/snake.attack.ap/index.html