Heart stopping moment pest controller is strangled by huge python while filming TV show

This is the heart stopping moment a pest
controller, 38 year old Craig Freeman, from
Birmingham almost got strangled by a python
while filming a reality TV show, for the series
Deadliest Pests Down Under, in Australia.
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Craig, who runs the company Stop That Pest, was
selected last year along with eight other Brits to
experience pest control in Australia.
Freeman said told Birmingham Post:
“When I saw the snake I told them they were
having a laugh.” “The snake’s head was bigger
than my hand. “The camera man had to rest the
camera on his knee because he was bent over
double laughing so much. “I didn’t want to do it,
and I just went to pieces.
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“I kept thinking of myself on the news, getting
strangled by a python on TV.“But I thought to
myself that I can’t let the Brummies down back
home.
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“I went to grab it and it went for me. It
throttled me.”
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When the python attacked him, the cameras were
still running. His face was turning red but he
eventually managed to remove the python from
around his neck.

Craig was approached by TV producers back in
October who invited him to audition for the show.