Python bites and drags Australian boy into pool

A five-year-old boy has survived being bitten, constricted and knocked into a swimming pool by a python. Five-year-old Beau was playing by the edge of a pool in Byron Bay when a 10-foot python struck from nearby vegetation, his father Ben Blake told Nine radio yesterday. “I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along — a bird or something — and Beau was it.” The python bit the child, plunged both into the water and coiled itself around a leg. The boy’s 76-year-old grandfather lept to the rescue, diving into the pool and lifting the boy out — with snake still attached. Ben Blake then prised the snake loose.