A woman in Sydney, Australia, discovered a 3-foot snake curled in her daughters’ bedroom Friday night, and her reaction was not what one would expect.
Especially when you consider that the woman, identified only as Meg, had mistaken the snake as a shoelace and almost bent down to pick it up before flicking on the light.
“But then it was a raised shoelace and I thought that’s weird,” she recalled to Ben Fordham on radio station 2GB, which was first to feature video footage of the encounter. “I was actually going to pick it up, and then all of a sudden I thought I’ll just turn the light on and see what it is.”
"I thought it was a shoelace … I was actually going to pick it up."
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The footage, captured by one of Meg’s young daughters, shows what’s believed to be a golden-crowned snake among the children’s toys, its head raised, poised to strike.
Meg and her closest daughter – another chimes in from a different room – are not afraid and seem to admire the reptile, despite its menacing posture.
“Dude, you’re striking at air,” the daughter says, before zooming in on the snake.
“He’s so cute,” she later adds. “Oh, did you see that little tongue flick?”
Ultimately, as if it were no big deal, Meg trapped the snake in a container and released it outside in a tree.
Golden-crowned snakes are endemic to Australia and mainly inhabit forested regions. Although they’re mildly venomous they rarely bite humans, but are known to bluff strike and mock bite when threatened.
–Image courtesy of radio station 2GB