Recently in Sao Paulo Brazil a 66 year old man wrestled with a 15 foot anaconda for close to half an hour in an attempt to free his grandson from the snakes deadly crushing grip.
The boy, Matheus Pereira de Araujo, 8, would more than likely have died if his screams for help hadn’t been heard by his grandfather.
This anaconda was approximately 80 pounds. Anacondas are the largest snake in the world. They live in swamps and rivers and kill their prey by asphyxiation or drowning.
Araujo had been playing with his cousin in a creek bed on his grandfathers farm when the snake made it’s move.
“It was very fast. I didn’t have time to do anything,” the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper quoted Araujo as saying. “My grandfather is a hero — I was so afraid of dying.”
When the boy was attacked his cousin Flavio, also 8 years of age, ran to get help. Joaquim Pereira, the grandfather, had been driving home when he heard the screams of Matheus and Flavio. He quickly jumped into the ravine and wrestled with the snake, which started to coil around him as well.
“I started fighting the animal and tried to loosen its grip on the boy’s neck but the snake was too strong,” Pereira told the Bom Dia newspaper of Sao Jose do Rio Preto.
When his efforts failed he resorted to attacking the snake with stones and a machete.
“I kept hitting it with the machete but it felt like a rubber tire, it wouldn’t tear,” he said. Pereira eventually killed the snake after a long struggle, freeing the boy who needed 21 stitches to his chest where the snake had bit him.
“It was the most terrible scene that I’ve seen in my life,” Pereira said. “It was totally coiled around him while he was screaming that he was dying.”
Know anyone who’s performed a heroic act? Tell me about it.
Did you hear about the massive kiss off in Manila, Philippines on Valentines day?
At the stroke of midnight more than 6,000 couples kissed simultaneously. Event organizers claim to have sent a new world record, breaking the record held by Hungary where 5,875 couples kissed at the same time in Budapest in 2005.
unofficially it’s said that 6,124 couples kissed simultaneously. However the numbers must be verified by an independent auditor and then must be approved by Guinness World Record officials before it becomes a new world record.
The event took place outside a Manila mall. Along with the more than 6,000 kissing couples there were fireworks, confetti, a giant TV screen and red balloons.
If you came here for Photo Hunters I haven’t thought of anything for this theme yet. I may still come up with something … but I’m trying to figure out how to combine Salty - this weeks theme - and funny. Give me some time - I may still come up with something yet!
I did come up with something - see photo below!
In other news - I slowed down on posting this week. Sorry about that. It’s not that there’s been a lack of Odd news, weird news or dumb criminal stories to write about. Nope, I don’t think that people will stop doing stupid things. It’s just that work has been so busy this week that I’ve been exhausted by the time I come home and haven’t put much time into bloggin’. Sorry about that!
I’ll leave you with a funny photo. I was saving this one as a blooper since it looks like none of the ladies from either basketball team wanted to catch the ball. However, now that I take a better look at the photo it might fit the theme this week … those ladies have got to be sweaty after running around playing basketball … and sweat is salty .. so yeah, this fits this weeks theme:
Salty, stunned basketball teams:
Wordless Wednesday
This is a photo that was taken by Tricia’s friend Jordan. It’s of his cat staring at the fish in the tank of course.
I get a kick out of pictures like this. I mean, I’m sure the fish are probably pretty nervous in that tank but I think they’re safe. It’s like “Cat-ter-tainment” or “Cat-elevison”?
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