Flingpord

  A boy has been rescued from the grasp of a hungry 10ft python preparing to swallow him whole in Australia.   Beau Blake, 5, was enjoying a swim at home in Byron Bay, New South Wales on Thursday, Nov. 24, when the python struck.   He was bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by the monster snake, which was about three times the boy's size.   Pythons squeeze their prey to death in a couple of minutes before swallowing victims whole.   Luckily Beau was freed after a dramatic rescue effort by his 76-year-old grandfather Allan, who pulled the boy from the pool before dad Ben prised the snake off his son's leg.   "Beau was just walking around the edge of the pool... and I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along... and Beau was it," Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW.   "I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom, it was completely wrapped around his leg... ...