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A pensioner has been rescued after what would be a worst-nightmare scenario for many people – his kayak started sinking on a snake-infested island.
Martin Grant took an inflatable out on a river in Thailand, but his trip didn’t end quite the way he’d intended.
The 77-year-old Brit was kayaking on a stretch of water, but was then dragged away by a strong current in the Udon Thani province yesterday afternoon.
Water started flooding into the vessel and it eventually became stuck in the mud, meaning Martin had to cling to a small, grassy mound, worried for his life.
The expat spent more than six hours stuck in that position fearing what would happen to him, before rescue teams came to his rescued.
They arrived and extracted him from the situation at around 11pm.
Martin Grant was strangeded when his inflatable kayak started to sink (Picture: Viral Press)
Martin Grant was stuck for six hours before anyone found him (Picture: Viral Press)
Video footage shows rescue teams walking through the grass at night with torches. Outside it’s pitch black.
They are wearing high vis clothes and speaking to each other as they walk and make their way slowly through the undergrowth.
Then one man says: ‘Hello, how are you?’
An older man responds: ‘I am not good. These two clowns dragged me through the jungle. They said they were sending a jet ski.
The British pensioner got stuck in a river in the Udon Thani province of Thailand (Picture: Viral Press)
Martin is a 77-year-old British expat (Picture: Viral Press)
The man points into the distance as he talks about the ‘two clowns’.
The camera then pans to a man’s legs which have cuts and blood on them.
The older man is then being guided through the night by two younger men, and they eventually reach what looks like a police car.
Moving to the ground, the camera then shows the inflatable kayak as everyone gathers around it.
The older man is shown looking at a phone before being led into an ambulance where he asks, ‘Have you got dry socks?’.
The boat got stuck in the mud, forcing Martin to cling to a grassy mound for his life (Picture: Viral Press)
Martin said his kayak started to sink on a snake-infested river (Picture: Viral Press)
It’s not the only snake-related incident that’s happened this month.
Earlier in the month a woman who lives in Arizona, US, reported her horror when she opened her toilet seat to find a huge, hissing snake.
Michelle Lespron said she came home from holiday, opened the toilet and ‘slammed the lid back down right away’ after seeing the black and pink-coloured coachwhip snake.
It took handlers two days to remove the reptile from her toilet.
Michelle – who lives in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson – had popped to the loo shortly after returning from a trip to Nashville.
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She said she couldn’t wait to sleep in her own bed and use her own bathroom, but instead discovered the hissing intruder in her home.
Preferring not to catch the snake herself, she enlisted the help of experts Rattlesnake Solutions.
However, it took handler Nick three visits over two days to catch the elusive reptile.
A video shows him bursting into the bathroom and quickly grabbing the snake before it bares its fangs and hisses at the camera.
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He was left stranded for six hours.