Snake slithers into bed with sleeping woman
A Queensland resident was abruptly woken up in the early hours of the morning when she felt 'something' moving in her bed.
The female resident casually turned on her bedside lamp wondering what the unusual slippery ‘sensation’ was pressing up against her leg.
The woman in her 60’s was amazed how quickly she moved when she realized a massive 1.5 metre carpet python had slithered into bed with her.
The terrified resident managed to snap a photo of the scaled intruder.
"When I felt that, I jumped out of bed immediately...I had no idea I could move that fast," she told 7 News.
"Apparently I have quick reflexes...who knew?"
The woman’s bedroom is on the second floor of an older style high-set home and although she has screens on the windows, they are loose at the bottom, "to let the geckos in and out".
"I'm guessing he was chasing a gecko and that's probably how he got in."
The resident quickly called a local snake catcher to remove the large snake.
In a later posting on social media the snake catcher shared the amazing footage of the 1.5 metre long snake.
“The owner got a bit of a rude awakening last night at about 3 o’clock for this little guy here, um, crawled across her legs and she said she got shot out of bed like a bullet out of a gun and um, I’m here to retrieve the little bugger and take him out to the bush so that way she won’t be disturbed again," the snake catcher said on social media.
“As you can see he is a nice, healthy sort of a specimen.”
“I found him underneath the lady’s pillow hey!”
“She wasn’t over enthused about keeping him around.”
Snake season is upon us as another nearby resident was rushed last night to Caboolture Hospital in a stable condition after being bitten on the hand by a snake which has also slithered into his bedroom of his home, north of Brisbane.
Only yesterday an Adelaide resident phoned snake catchers to remove a brown snake from her kitchen, and she certainly called at the right time.
The Eastern brown was pregnant, and two months later she laid 14 eggs while under the care of Snake Catchers Adelaide.
A woman can be heard shrieking when handler Rolly Burrell pulls the wriggling snake out from behind the fridge in the suburb of Moana.
“He’s a big one!”
“He is quite big actually, he’s big for suburbia,” Mr Burrell replies.
In a video uploaded to the business’s Facebook page, the professional snake removalist said he had a feeling the snake was pregnant.
“I grabbed the snake and I thought that it was carrying eggs so we decided to keep it for a couple of days to see if she would lay in captivity so we could show viewers on Facebook what it really looks like, what a snake egg looks like,” he said.
The footage was taken as the snake was still in the process of laying her last egg.
Brown snakes are the second deadliest land snake in the world and shed their skin several days before they give birth, Mr Burell explained.
He noted that this mum waited a little longer than usual to nest.
“Usually they lay their eggs in Ocotober/November, so this is a real late one,” he said.
The eggs will be kept in an incubator and are predicted to hatch in March.
News break – January 13
