A mother from Adelaide was in horror when she saw a highly venomous snake crawling in her child's lunchbox. She immediately called reptile handler Rolly Burrell and told him it happened just as the woman packed school lunches for her kids.
Mr. Burrell told her over the phone to close the box and take it outside.
The reptile was identified as being an eastern brown, one of the world's most venomous snakes.
Mr. Burrell said: "She'd already started packing it, the lunchbox itself has a lip around the top — snakes like to get into closed spaces so they feel secure."
"When she opened up the lid … she didn't even see it and she was halfway through putting the lunch in and then she saw it and shut the lid down and gave us a call."
"We're doing about 50, 60 calls a day and they're all baby brown snakes."
<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Most kids like a surprise in their school lunch boxes, but not like this one - an Adelaide hills family found a deadly baby brown snake. Details in 7 News at 4pm and 6pm. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/7News?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#7News</a> <a href="https://t.co/4jiS15NGvo">pic.twitter.com/4jiS15NGvo</a></p>— 7 News Adelaide (@7NewsAdelaide) <a href="https://twitter.com/7NewsAdelaide/status/968320759817912320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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"This is one of the best years for us that I've seen in 40 years of doing it, there's just baby snakes hatching everywhere."
According to the experience snake catcher, the snake probably headed for the house’s pantry as it was "one of the darkest spots in the house."
<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TONIGHT: Snake catchers warn about the proliferation of baby brown snakes as one is found in a lunchbox. <a href="https://twitter.com/ChelseaCarey_9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChelseaCarey_9</a> reports in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9NewsAt6?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9NewsAt6</a> <a href="https://t.co/iZ4UYa6eRt">pic.twitter.com/iZ4UYa6eRt</a></p>— Nine News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) <a href="https://twitter.com/9NewsAdel/status/968378320634175492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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This particular species is found along coastal and inland areas of mainland Australia.
Since 2000, it has killed 23 Australians.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-27/baby-brown-snake-in-a-lunchbox/9488290
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This is a problem with Australia Can't the snake catchers just kill them so they can die and especially the mother one who lays all the eggs and starts hatching. I do care about animals but not animals that can kill people and why aren't we killing them when they are killing us. We have lost 23 Aussies and we can't let these snakes kill all of the people. If snakes weren't real the world wouldn't be like this. I understand with lions that they don't kill people they just sit there but if people come in there way then they attack. But with snakes no way. We should kill them I say
The snakes have killed some of us and why don't we just give them revenge
No they are animals we can't just care about us. there are a human being. some people kill another animals they didn't start attacking first it was humans. animals are just like humans they have a mother and a father.
your right its part of the circle of life for them. its nature. its how it works. we shouldn't be attacking snakes we should be helping snakes
Brownies are everywhere down under.