Tradies' horrific find after strong smell from AC alarms residents
Two tradies called in to replace an air conditioner in Sydney’s inner west got the shock of their lives when they opened the unit up to discover an unexpected guest lodged inside.
Fortunately for 24-year-old apprentice electrician Chris Payne and his boss, the two-metre-long python curled up inside the air conditioner was dead – but that still didn’t stop them from getting the shivers.
The resident, 47-year-old David Marchant, had noticed an unpleasant smell coming from his old unit, which had stopped working, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
When he called technicians to his Earlwood home, the reason for that unusual aroma was revealed.
“The installers were just relieved it wasn’t alive. At first they weren’t 100 per cent sure it was actually dead. I said no, look, nothing alive smells like that,” Mr Marchant told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Mr Payne posted footage of the creepy find to his Facebook page with the caption “Holy s***.”
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“Just a carpet python mate! Can give ya a nasty bite but won’t kill you … still freaky though,” one person wrote under the unnerving video.
“Never touching another unit again,” a second person wrote.
“You couldn’t pay me enough to work on that thing,” wrote another.
The house backs onto bushland, but David Marchant said it was the first time they had found a snake, dead or alive, on the property.
He said his 11-year-old son thought the snake find was “cool,” but his wife and daughter weren’t so sure.
“I rang my wife Trish just after it,” he said. “She screamed and said we had to move.
“I admit I had a bit of a jump when I saw the snake in the unit,” Mr Payne told Yahoo 7.