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A video has emerged showing a backcountry rancher casually picking up a snake and dragging it off a dirt road even as it reared and came dangerously close to hitting his bare feet and legs .
The barefoot man, who wishes to be known by his nickname ‘Bouta’, can be seen catching the writhing snake by its tail on Saturday evening while driving on a Northern Territory bush track towards Darwin.
Meanwhile, a beer in a bottle holder sits in the dust beside him as he fights the snake in the glare of the headlights of his four-wheel drive.
“Stop, stop, stop, stop,” Bouta says soothingly as the snake squirms in his hand.
Stockman Bouta casually removes a snake that was blocking his vehicle on the way back to Darwin
The snake rears towards him and comes within millimeters of biting Bouta’s calf and foot.
“I almost got back on my feet,” he simply sums up the video he posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Bouta, who identifies himself as a “proud blackfella,” lets go of the snake and begins sliding off the road toward the bush.
‘Come on, buddy. Leave the road. Come on buddy, off the road buddy, the man said as he escorted him calmly.
He gives the snake a brief touch near its tail to hurry it away and it disappears into the brush.
Bouta, 46, told Daily Mail Australia on Monday the snake was a non-veinous python, which he described as “harmless”.
He blocked him and his partner’s vehicle as they returned home after a day of pig hunting.
“I’ve been around snakes my whole life,” he said.
Bouta said he had handled snakes all his life as he got the “harmless” python off the road.
“I also take care of poisonous snakes.”
One person commenting on the video asks: “Barefoot snake feuds, anyone?
Bouta answers “yes,” then simply: “That’s how it is.” »
Earlier Saturday, Boula posted a photo of him and another man standing on either side of the driver’s cabin of a vehicle almost entirely submerged in brown water.
“Damn, it was a crazy day with great friends,” he wrote of the expedition.
“Pulses were increased. The adrenaline was present.
A social media user asked Bouta if there were any crocodiles present.
‘Of course. That’s why we were on the roof,” he said.
Bouta works on the giant group of cattle stations in Tipperary, located almost 200km south of Darwin.
During the eventful pig-hunting trip, Bouta (pictured right) also found himself away from the water where he said there were “a lot” of crocodiles.
