This one’s really an extraordinary boy. Instead of playing with peers, he for a 4.8-metre-long python as a playmate.
In the village of Sit Tbow, 50 kilometres east of Phnom Penh, Sambath Uon, seven, reportedly refuses to go to sleep without the company of his pet, Chamreun, or Lucky, in Khmer.
The snake slithered into town in 2000, when Sambath was just a few months old.
While the boy’s father tried to return the snake to the forest three times, the Burmese python loyally returned to her young master and has earned the acceptance of villagers, who think she brings good fortune.
