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https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/legend-aussies-rally-around-elderly-woman-after-amazing-snake-act/news-story/39eb81297c817a482eb7b386ab7f9729

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#OzWatch: Carpet Python meets its match in senior puppy owner bitten three times. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/legend-aussies-rally-around-elderly-woman-after-amazing-snake-act/news-story/39eb81297c817a482eb7b386ab7f9729

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0:00.0

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0:17.6

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0:21.7

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0:25.0

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0:30.0

I'm John Battser, the Friends of History debating society with Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales.

0:36.0

It's moderate temperatures, it's beach time, except we now learn that snake catching is a full on sport for all ages.

0:50.0

Jeremy, she's 80 years old and she takes on snakes.

0:55.4

Is this typical of Australian seniors, my cohorts,

0:59.5

or other?

1:00.4

Because I have never been even slightly interested in showing how brave I am by going near one of these venoms.

1:09.0

This seems to be a new thing emerging here in Australia, John John and honestly I did not know it was

1:13.8

the thing until this week and you're right it seems to be this 80 year old is

1:17.5

maybe just one of many and what actually happened was she was actually at

1:21.4

home in Lennox Head New South, which is a beautiful part of the

1:24.4

Australian coastline just near the Northern New South Wales near the Queensland Southern border there,

1:29.1

and she was happily at home minding her own business when suddenly she heard a dog let out this

1:33.8

blood curling screen as she described it so she runs outside to have a look and her

1:38.2

poor puppy has a carpet snake wrapped around it or here was already been that least once so she thought, you know what, I'm going to do something immediately and she just runs on in. So I guess the adrenaline got in there and she managed to get in there. She grabbed the snake off the puppy, but the snake started biting her.

1:54.7

Didn't bite her just once, didn't bite her just twice. It bit her three times and she still persisted

2:00.3

and she actually managed to get the snake off of her puppy and her daughter who was nearby as well came to her aid because she heard the commotion and lo and behold the sight that she saw when she came around the corner of the home was her 80 year old mother holding a car

2:14.4

path and by its tail nonchalantly saying look what I've got so I don't know

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