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Eugene

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Wed Oct 7, 2015, 12:57 AM Oct 2015

Kentucky pet store worker nearly crushed to death by python

Source: BBC

Kentucky pet store worker nearly crushed to death by python

6 October 2015 US & Canada

A man working at a Kentucky pet store has been seriously hurt after a massive python he was feeding nearly crushed him to death.

Police said they were called to Captive Born Reptiles and found the snake wrapped around the man.

Terry Wilkens was not breathing when the officers pried the snake off him but he resumed breathing shortly afterwards, officers said.

The python weighed about 125lb (56kg) and measured 20ft (6m) long.

"It was only by the grace of God that one of the officers knew how to deal with snakes," Newport Kentucky Police Chief Tom Collins told the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34460437
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