Thai woman trapped by massive python for two hours

Home invasion can be terrifying. Home invasion by a snake can be even worse. Especially when it takes you prisoner. Such a fate befell 64-year-old Thai woman Arrom Arunroj, who was held hostage for nearly two hours by a four-meter-long python in her home in Samut Prakan. Arrom was doing the dishes when the python, who had slithered in from a nearby forest, announced its presence by plunging its fangs into her thigh. Pythons are not venomous, but their sheer strength is just as deadly.

For nearly two hours Arrom battled the snake as it coiled around her. On the verge of suffocation, and with what could have been her last ounces of breath, her calls for help were finally heard by a neighbor, who called for help. Police were forced to break down the door to save her, but even then, it took rescuers half an hour to pry the snake away, after which she was taken to hospital with bite wounds, exhaustion, and one hell of a tale to tell.