This vacation took a scary — and slithery — turn.
A person in Australia called a snake catcher to let him know his wife sucked up one in all the venomous creatures in a vacuum cleaner.
The pair was at a resort in Queensland and enlisted the help of Drew Godfrey of Hervey Bay Snake Catchers to, at first, remove the reptile from their room.
Later, the husband rang back with a startling update — his wife had already caught the animal, by vacuuming it.
“He called back quickly saying not to fret because his wife had vacuumed it up,” Godfrey told Newsweek.
“I explained that they’re protected species and it will be cruel and illegal to go away it in there. They understood and were completely satisfied for us to return out.”
When Godfrey got to the hotel, he found the vacuum cleaner on the porch with a plastic bag around its nozzle to forestall the snake’s escape.
In a video the corporate posted on Facebook, Godfrey is seen opening the vacuum cleaner and removing the extractor bag, where the snake, which was “was unharmed, just a bit of dusty and confused” was trapped.
He promptly released it in a close-by bushland, away from people.
“So just once you think you’ve seen all of it on this job, someone calls you and says their wife has sucked a snake up with the vacuum cleaner,” the corporate said within the post.
The creature was a hatchling yellow-faced whip snake, which is venomous, but not considered dangerous to humans.
“I’ve been envenomated 3 times by these snakes,” Godfrey told the outlet. “It’s like a bee sting.”
