Ball python bites boy's arm while in bed

FRESNO BEE
FRESNO, Calif. -- A 12-year-old boy received a rude awakening when he was bitten by a ball python that was clinging to his arm inside his bed.
Michael Rodriguez bolted upright to find a 4-foot ball python hanging on his lower right arm. He shook his arm, flinging the snake to the carpet, and ran to his parents' bedroom to tell them what happened.
Michael, the oldest of four children in the house, was treated at his doctor's office and returned to school with quite a story to tell.
"They don't believe it at first," Michael said. "Everybody was just creeped out about it."
"I didn't cry, and then I walked to my parents' room," Michael said, still displaying bite marks on the side of his right hand.
"We thought he was dreaming, but he was holding his hand and it was bleeding," said his father, Cedric Esqueda, recalling the moment when Michael awakened him. "It was a pretty good bite, and I think when he threw it from his arm it made the bite worse."
Cedric Esqueda found the snake hidden halfway under a dresser. Animal control officers took the python to the Central California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
No one knows where the snake came from.