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Maths teacher wrestles 17 foot anaconda and defeats it after blindfolding it with a T-shirt

Guiana:  Sebastien Bascoules, 39, waded into a shallow river to retrieve the massive, deadly predator after it had snatched the pooch from the bank.

The maths teacher, who lives in Matoury, French Guiana, hauled the 175lb - 12-and-a-half-stone - reptile onto land in nearby Montsinery before blindfolding it with a T-shirt.

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