Man Bites Snake

A Kenyan man chomped on a snake as it tried to drag him into a tree for an afternoon snack, in the Malindi area of Kenya.


Ben Nyaumbe was engaged in a tense, life-threatening struggle as a 13ft (4m) python wrapped around him and hauled him up a tree, when he decided to lay his gnashers into the hungry beast's tail.


"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he said, "I had to bite it."


Nyaumbe managed to grab his phone and call for help but only once he'd covered up the monster's jaws to stop himself from being swallowed whole. His only injury was a bleeding lip which was caused by his toothy fightback.


A police spokesman said that this event was very mysterious as he has not known a snake to yank a human into a tree before. The police also said that the snake was taken to a sanctuary in a local town but later escaped. They say they want to "arrest" the snake before it snatches another victim.