Nenad caught a python with his bare hands in Subotica: It wrapped around his hand, squeezing it terribly

Photo: Subotica.com

Nenad Vuckovic is a brave man from Subotica, in northern Serbia, who managed to catch and defeat a python on a football pitch while the children were training. Until yesterday, he had only seen snakes in zoos, and never dreamed that he would meet a python "eye to eye" on the stands of the Sever stadium as his 6-year-old grandson had a training session, reports Subotica.com.

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"There were about a hundred children aged 6 to 15 on the pitch at that moment. My 6-year-old grandson was one of those kids, and I, as a proud grandfather, watched the training from the stands. At one point, I hear a man say that he saw a snake, I turn around and see it coming out of the bushes and approaching me," 71-year-old Nenad begins the story and adds:

"I immediately recognized that it was a python, but it was not clear to me how it got there. The snake, about a meter and a half long, passed by me and when it approached the pitch to about 2 meters I realized that I had to do something. I grabbed her tail and it curled up and raised its head."

Bare-handed and without any equipment, he managed to cover the "uninvited guest" with a cart that was nearby, and then to overpower it.

Photo: Subotica.com

"Some kind of cart from the supermarket was next to me, and I turned it upside down and covered the snake, but it soon started to come out. I managed to grab its head and then its was mine. It wrapped herself around my hand and squeezed terribly. A lady gave me a bucket in which I put the python, then I put the bucket in a nearby trash can, and as everything miraculously came together, we found a door made of planks and covered the bucket with it," Nenad recounts.

The police then arrived with another person and the python was taken to the local zoo.

We have received confirmation from the zoo that the snake has beeen placed in a shelter, and the Prosecutor's Office was also informed about this case. According to unofficial information, the python is microchipped, and it is possible that it will first reach the snake farm and then the owner.

"I felt fear, but mostly because of the children. However, despite my fear, I took care not to hurt the animal. Since I assume that the python has an owner, if they intend to give me some reward, I ask only one thing, that they mow that pitch where the children train in knee-deep grass," the Subotica man, whose bravery is evident in numerous photos that have flooded social networks, concludes modestly.

(Telegraf.rs)