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Slithering surprise: Australian woman finds snake on her Christmas tree (highly venomous!)
FoxNews ^ | 12/19/16

Posted on 12/20/2016 8:29:58 AM PST by LibWhacker

Tiger snake found in a woman's Christmas tree in Australia. (Provided by Barry Goldsmith of Snake Catcher Victoria Australia.)

It probably wasn’t what she asked Santa for, but a woman in Australia got an early Christmas surprise in her tree this year.

According to professional snake catcher Barry Goldsmith, a woman in Melbourne found a tiger snake intertwined with the tinsel on her Christmas tree on Sunday morning.

“She’s didn’t panic, she just took a photo and sent it to the snake catcher, me, and 20 minutes later I had the little bugger in a bag,” Goldsmith wrote on Facebook with a photo of the holiday reptile.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: australia; christmas; snake; tree
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Let the analogies run wild!
1 posted on 12/20/2016 8:29:58 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Venomous serpents are fairly common down under and people tend to take them in stride. The Tiger Snake, while packing some truly lethal venom, is not by nature aggressive, it’s name notwithstanding. While this was undoubtedly disconcerting, the woman strikes me as level headed and she handled the situation well.


2 posted on 12/20/2016 8:34:24 AM PST by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: LibWhacker

Not good.


3 posted on 12/20/2016 8:40:07 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: LibWhacker

I thought that Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch was on vacation in Hawaii,the land of photoshopped birth certificates and Connecticut SS numbers.


4 posted on 12/20/2016 8:41:30 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: LibWhacker

Maybe she forgot to check the tree before she cut it down? :)


5 posted on 12/20/2016 8:44:13 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Da Coyote
We had a tree frog come into our house on a Christmas tree in Minnesota years ago when we lived there. The little critter thawed out and jumped from one ornament to another.

I scooped him up and placed him in a palm plant we had growing in a basement pot.

He spent the entire winter with us...

6 posted on 12/20/2016 8:44:59 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Da Coyote

And the first analogy is a humdinger! Good job. :-)


7 posted on 12/20/2016 8:53:36 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: SoFloFreeper

OMG this is my worst nightmare. Ever. Typing and looking over my shoulder at the moment convinced I hear something moving in my tree.


8 posted on 12/20/2016 8:57:12 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I worked for a interior plant care company that received its plants from Florida. Inevitably, a few critters would hitch a ride. Usually frogs, but once a Garter snake made it all the way to a client’s office. Such hysteria of a harmless creature.


9 posted on 12/20/2016 9:03:28 AM PST by neefer (We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again.)
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To: dhs12345

Maybe she forgot to check the tree before she cut it down?
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Look closely. It’s a fake tree. Most likely the snake found its way into her garage/storage shed.


10 posted on 12/20/2016 9:23:11 AM PST by panaxanax
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To: Salamander

Snek ping.


11 posted on 12/20/2016 9:23:51 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: LibWhacker

Venomous snake in Christmas tree. Figures it would be Australia. A beautiful country, which seems to have cornered the market on dangerous wild critters that can kill you.


12 posted on 12/20/2016 9:37:10 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: LibWhacker

Nice snake! A friend called me this morning about getting her son a snake for Christmas.


13 posted on 12/20/2016 9:42:17 AM PST by Tax-chick ("No general but Ludd means the poor any good.")
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To: LibWhacker

Well we now know the Hollywood folks didn’t go to Canada after all.


14 posted on 12/20/2016 9:45:10 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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Australian woman finds snake on her Christmas tree (highly venomous!)

Highly venomous? Of course! It's in Australia ...

15 posted on 12/20/2016 9:46:45 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: panaxanax

Ya. I wonder too how many pine (coniferous) trees are in Australia? Probably not too common? :)

The scary thing is that she carried it into her house with the little “passenger.”

Reminds me of the Christmas Vacation... Griswold cut the tree down in front of his house... and didn’t inspect it for occupants.

https://www.google.com/#q=christmas+vacation+squirrel+scene


16 posted on 12/20/2016 9:50:38 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: LibWhacker

17 posted on 12/20/2016 9:54:50 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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This time, don’t eat the apple!


18 posted on 12/20/2016 10:22:42 AM PST by PTBAA
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DON’T EAT THE APPLE.

I went on vacation to Australia years ago. Had a great time. The thing there is it is filled with tiny little things that will kill you. At least in Africa you can see a tiger or elephant. In Australia you have snakes, octopi, jellyfish, ants, spiders, coral, and various other deadly little things you can’t see.


19 posted on 12/20/2016 10:40:31 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Black Agnes

Everybody gets free sneks but me.


20 posted on 12/20/2016 1:04:06 PM PST by Salamander (This was not an election. It was an exorcism...)
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