This is the heart-stopping moment an animal catcher was almost bitten by a ferocious python caught hiding in a family's roof.<br /><br />The rescue team was contacted by a pensioner who found the wild snake in his home in Saraburi, central Thailand on July 23 afternoon.<br /><br />The 14ft long python was in the rain pipe when the rescuers arrived. The team pulled and brought it down.<br /><br />However, the unrelenting snake lunged at one of the rescuers which knocked him over onto a concrete pipe. The rescuers eventually caught the snake and it was placed into a sack to be released into the wild a few miles away from the village.<br /><br />Property owner Settapong Chanthat, 67, said he first thought the creature on his roof was a cat. <br /><br />He said: "I had been hearing sounds on the roof for several days already. <br /><br />"I thought it was a cat so I just left it but today my wife told me to check and I was shocked to discover it was a snake."
