Sleeping boy awakes to python wrapped around his arm, biting him in Australia bedroom

A sleeping Australian boy awoke to a real nightmare when he found a python wrapped around his arm, biting him in the dark.

It happened around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 8 in Whiteside, and the traumatized boy was able to rouse his parents for help before suffering any serious injuries, according to Steven Brown of Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation. Whiteside is just north of Brisbane.

The “customer was woken by their young son having a (3.2 foot) coastal carpet python ... wrapped around his arm and (it) had bitten him twice on the hand,” Brown said.

“The father unwound the snake from the son’s arm before removing him from further injury. They rang the hospital who insisted it was best to have him go to hospital to have wounds assisted. Father said the young fella is ... very shaken.”

The boy’s name and age were not released.

An update shared on Facebook reports the boy “is doing great and is looking forward to going to school with a cool story to tell his mates.”

A search of the boy’s room revealed the snake was coiled up under his bed, a photo shows.

It is suspected the snake got into the bedroom by slithering through a hole in the ceiling where an air conditioning vent had been, Brown said.

The snake was captured and hauled away to be rereleased into the wild.

Carpet pythons, which are native to Australia, grow to nearly 10 feet and can “inflict a painful bite,” according to the Melbourne Museum.

However, they are not known for being aggressive to humans. The bites inflicted on the boy were likely “an act of self defense,” Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation said.

“Before anyone starts saying that the snake deliberately went after the child, this is not correct,” the service reported.

“The snake would have been slithering over the child while asleep in bed. (The boy) would have moved in his sleep because of the sensation of the snake slithering over him and most likely rolled on the snake causing the snake to feel threatened and having to protect itself by wrapping it’s self around his arm and biting him.”

News of the boy’s experience horrified commenters on social media, including a man who praised the boy’s dad for maintaining a cool head.

“Literally my worst nightmare! Now I’m going to have to go back to checking under the beds again,” Bec Boreham posted.

“Just because it’s non venomous, doesn’t mean it’s harmless,” Aaron James Young said. “Still big risk of infection or clipping an artery in the wrist or something.”

“Mum there’s a snake monster under my bed,” Adam Knipe posted. “I’m serious, look.”

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