Posted on 03/14/2021 3:17:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A teenage girl was horrified to discover a venomous snake hiding inside her asthma inhaler.
The teen was bringing in her washing yesterday at her home in Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia, when she spotted the red-bellied black snake slither out of the clothes she had just brought inside.
She wasn’t sure exactly where it had ended up, until she noticed it curled up inside the open top of her blue inhaler. Fortunately the girl called a team of snake catchers, who managed to safely capture the reptile and rehome it. Red-bellied black snakes are frequently found on Australia’s east coast and are responsible for a number of bites every year. No human deaths have been recorded, but their venom can cause serious symptoms including bleeding, vomiting, abdominal pain, headaches, diarrhoea and muscle weakness or pain.
After the discovery yesterday Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers wrote on Facebook: ‘You would not believe this.
This is crazy and we’re super lucky we were able to find the snake.’
Team member Stuart McKenzie told 9News: ’It’s one of the most incredible places we have ever found a snake before. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like picking it up and discovering it in there.’ While the snake was only a juvenile, Mr McKenzie said it could still give a nasty bite if scared or provoked. He added: ‘They are just exploring, seeking food this time of year before it gets cold again.
‘We’ve found them in all sorts of places. Just recently we had a snake become stuck inside the tubing of a screen door.’ Red-bellied snakes are native to eastern Australia and are commonly found in forests, swamps and some urban areas. They usually grow up to two metres long and eat mainly frogs, other reptiles, small mammals and fish.
Everything in Oz can kill ya, Mate.
That’s gotta be one small snake, or one giant girl.
Aww, come on. They have neither rabies nor poison ivy.
Dammit that was gonna be my comment when I saw the post!
“...who managed to safely capture the reptile and rehome it....”
I would have “rehomed” it alright!😎
American reporters would have said it was a poisonous snake.
Did anybody not know the location before reading this part?
She's just big boned.
I’ve got so many poisonous snakes on my property that they’ve interbred with one another. I got a really big hybrid rattle headed copper moccasin that just looks nasty.
Must have been a tiny juvie snake. That’s a horrible surprise nonetheless. Hope girl was not injured.
The pic of the inhaler shows an empty inhaler case although they are saying it just has a open top. They are lying as usual.
I would have “rehomed” it alright!😎
There are only 3 kinds of snakes in the entire world:
Dead ones...
Ones I have seen yet...
Ones that got away.
“Yes but they keep the rodents under control..”
Now if they could only keep the democrat invaders of AZ, TX, FL etc under control!😃
That’s why they invented shotguns and machetes.
Serpent Swingers and their free love.
DC is filled with yellow-bellied blue snakes .
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