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Terry Wilkins was
tangled up with the snake when two police officers arrived at
the Captive Born Reptiles store in Newport, Kentucky, a suburb
of Cincinnati, Ohio, at around noon on Monday.
"When officers arrived on the scene, they located the victim who
was total(ly) unconscious with a large snake wrapped around his
head and neck," according to a Newport police report.
The officers grabbed the snake by the head and unwrapped it from
Wilkins, who was not breathing, the report said. He began to
breathe as rescue squad workers arrived, it said.
Wilkins was treated at a Cincinnati hospital with nearly two
dozen stitches to his arm where the snake bit him and went home
later on Monday, according to a colleague, who declined to give
his name. Wilkins could not be reached immediately for comment
on Tuesday.
According to the police report, a woman who was with Wilkins at
the time told an investigator he was cleaning the snake's glass
cage when it clamped onto his arm.
Wilkins told her to fill a bleach bottle with hot water to help
get the snake to release him, but she did not have enough water
initially and when she returned from refilling the bottle, the
snake had wrapped itself around Wilkins and began choking him,
the report said.
The snake was unharmed.
(Reporting by Tim Ghianni in Nashville; Editing by David Bailey
and Sandra Maler)
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