Posted on 12/04/2008 11:50:21 AM PST by BGHater
IT WOULD be enough to put phobia sufferers in their grave - 14 baby carpet pythons slithering around in your bedroom.
Esther Honegger was "horrified" when she found the baby snakes in her Fannie Bay home.
"I thought 'Oh my God, how many of them are there?'," she said.
"I hate snakes and as I walked backwards and forwards I would see another one."
"They were everywhere - there was one curled around my bedhead, another around the bottom of the chair, and when I went outside there was one in the hallway, another on the (stair) railing and another on the step.
"It was like I was having a nightmare.
"Everywhere I looked, they just kept popping up."
The driving instructor first noticed the snakes when going to bed about 9pm on Wednesday.
She called friends, who didn't believe her, and then called the police.
She was then told to call a 24-hour snake hotline.
Snake catcher Geoff Brouff attended her home and managed to wrangle seven of the snakes.
But the next morning he received another frantic call from Ms Honegger, who had found five more of the reptiles in her house.
Another trip back to her unit on Thursday afternoon found another two.
Ms Honegger is now tip-toeing around her home. Mr Brouff said it was likely there would be more hiding around the place.
"Carpet snakes lay an average of 25 to 30 eggs, so yeah, it's definitely possible there will be more," he said.
He said the mother was likely living in the roof, with the babies emerging through the air-conditioner vents.
Mr Brouff admitted that he first thought the call-out was a prank.
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One of those snakes has slithered its way into the White House.... ;)
Crikey!
Ok, that would be my worst nightmare. I hate snakes more than anything else, even democrats.
You know you've got a snake problem in your area when there is a 24-hour snake hotline available.
OK, that's why I'm not moving to Australia...
well, I once had a bat in my air conditioner.
Bunch of snakes in your house? Nothing a stick of dynamite or a grenade won’t solve.
...*grins*...reminds me of a time in Thailand, I was driving down a road very late at night and from a distance saw what I thought was a piece of fire hose about ten feet long laying across the road. Then it hit me, there’s no water out here and it moved! (King Cobra)
“Ok, that would be my worst nightmare. I hate snakes more than anything else, even democrats.”
Democrats ARE snakes.....
Wall to wall carpet (snakes)?
Nice one.
But the good news is that she didn’t have to worry about rats and mice.
That is a large speed bump!!!!!! LOL!
I wonder if they were shag or plush carpet snakes, maybe berber?
Carpet python? Thank goodness it wasn’t trouser trout!!!
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