LELY RESORT, Fla. (WBBH/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) – A woman’s pool day turned into face-off with a ten-foot python at a resort.
What was meant to be a relaxing day at the pool turned into quite the opposite for one woman from Lely Resort in Florida after she spotted a Burmese python nearby.
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“Holy cow its come to our house,” Jane Spencer, a community resident at Lakoya, told WBBH.
When her day at the pool turned into a nightmare encounter, Spencer called wildlife trappers Seth Brattain and Jesse Richards.
When the experts arrived at the house, they found the 60-pound Burmese python in a pond just 20 feet from her lanai screen. In the water, experts said the snake had the advantage.
“Couldn’t get the noose around the head. He was doing this number, and then all of a sudden he shot out into the lake. So we literally ditched the sticks. We jumped in and had the back end and were both struggling trying to fight it,” Richards told the outlet.
The trappers failed to snag the invasive species once, and told the station that they nearly got bit, coming too close to 120 razor sharp teeth.
“We pull it out. As soon as he was free, he went right at me. At the same time, I slipped and lost my grip. I jump back up here grab my tongs, came back around grabbed him by the head, and that was the end of it,” Richards told the station’s reporters.
The trappers showed the outlet the frozen remains of the snake, and said the snake’s removal would save countless mammals, birds and pets.
“They’re coming out of the everglades and they’re hungry,” Richards said of the invasive species.
