a nightmare realized

A three-metre long carpet python has attacked a six-year-old boy while he slept in the mid-New South Wales coastal town of Macksville.

The boy's mother Tammy woke to a "terrifying scream" and ran into the bedroom to find the snake wrapped around her son Tyler's belly.

If it weren't true, it's almost enough to remind me of an old Saturday Night Live TV skit that centered around a "land shark."