“BOSTON — Police rescued a Boston woman from the jaws of her 7-foot Burmese python after the snake clamped onto her arm and started squeezing.

Wanda Nunes, 43, told the Boston Herald that her python Moma went for her arm shortly before she planned to feed the snake two rats Saturday morning.

“She must have smelled the rats because she reached back and lunged for my arm,” Nunes said. “Before I knew it, she was all wrapped around me. … Every time I tried to pry her off or move, she just got tighter around my leg.”

Her 13-year-old son called police after trying, and failing, to pull the snake off his mother.

Two police officers were able to pry Moma off Nunes and put her back in her cage before immediately spiriting Ms. Nunes into the backyard, where they took turns beating her repeatedly with a rolled-up phone book.

Neither of the officers, it turns out, was very fond of snakes.”

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