This story is so bizarre that we don’t know if we file it under play date gone bad, or make a silly pun about rattles, snakes and babies.
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According to The Telegraph, a 13-month-old baby with six teeth chewed the head of a venomous snake off! His mother found him with the reptile and freaked out as little Imad Aleeyan cried when his new, dangerous teething tool was taken away from him.
In a lucky twist, the snake itself was just a baby and therefore not as harmful as it would have been as an adult.
Family members recount the fiasco to The Telelgraph:
“I was making his milk and I looked over and saw he had a snake in his mouth,” said his mother, Ghadir Aleeyan who lives in the Arab Israeli town of Shefa’Amr, 9 miles east of the port city of Haifa.
“I started to scream. I couldn’t believe my eyes,” she told AFP. “I nearly died of fright.”
Her screams brought the rest of the family – and the neighbourhood – running.
“We rushed in and found the baby with a snake in his mouth, chewing it. It was really scary, just horrible,” the boy’s aunt, Yasmin Shahin, said.
A neighbour who had rushed to see what was going on yanked the half-dead reptile out of the boy’s mouth and killed it, she said.
“When he pulled it out, Imad started crying,” she said, describing the snake’s head as “very badly chewed” when it emerged from the boys mouth.
They immediately checked the child for any bite marks but found none, with doctors at Rambam hospital in Haifa confirming he was unharmed.
“Doctors at the hospital told us the snake was really poisonous but that we were very lucky because they release less venom in the winter.”
It may only be January, but this toddler wins the G-of-the-year award! His peers better watch out when he hits the playground.
SOURCE: The Telegraph
