Family discover small 'brown snake' in garage - but it's not as it seems
A family has discovered what they thought was a small brown snake in their garage on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast but it turned out to not be what it seemed.
The Snake Catcher 24/7 Sunshine Coast’s Stuart McKenzie was called out to a home in Buderim over the weekend after a family called claiming a brown snake was slithering in their garage.
“This is a first,” the snake catcher wrote on Facebook.
“They did get one thing correct – the brown colour.”
It turns out it wasn’t a brown snake though.
The creature slithering in the garage was actually a giant worm.
Mr McKenzie told Yahoo7 the giant worm was tucked under an old carpet in the garage.
“From a distance it looked like a snake,” he said.
“They were petrified of snakes so didn’t want to go close to it.”
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It’s not the first time Mr McKenzie has been called to someone’s Sunshine Coast in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
A Sippy Downs woman called the Sunshine Coast snake catcher in October last year distressed over what she thought was a snake “hanging out on the lawn in her backyard”.
It turns out the woman didn’t have a snake in her yard – it was actually a rubber tie down strap.
Gold Coast woman Kellie Mace also found a giant worm while on a walk on Tamborine Mountain last October.
Tamborine Mountain is well known for its giant earthworms, which can sometimes be up to two metres in length.
