Snake Thread (formerly Cape York residents horrified and perplexed as deadly snakes make themselves at home)

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A guide to all the places with no snakes

 

Snakes are sneaky. In their 150 million-odd years on this planet, they’ve managed to slither their way into most corners of the world. But Saint Patrick can’t take credit for eliminating our scaly friends from any of them.

 

Ireland, like pretty much all places with no snakes, never had them to begin with. Other regions are simply too frigid for them. As cold-blooded ectotherms, they rely on their environment to control their body temperature, so few species can live too close to the poles—at least for now. The common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, can get as far as the southern border of the tundra in North America (though its bodily fluids start to freeze), but both the Arctic and Antarctic are snake-free. Similarly, the northernmost bits of Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Canada, and the US have no native snakes, and the southernmost tip of South America is serpent-less as well. That makes Alaska one of two states to be snake-free, the other being Hawaii.

 

As an island, Hawaii is more representative of why most countries without snakes have gotten so lucky: They’re geographically isolated.

 

Not all islands are devoid of snakes, of course. Polynesia is covered in them, Madagascar has plenty, and the Caribbean is home to many as well. Ilha da Queimada Grande, a tiny blip of land off the coast of Brazil, has roughly one snake per square meter by some estimates and is the exclusive home to one of the deadliest snakes in the world, the golden lancehead viper. It’s so dangerous there, the government mostly doesn’t allow humans to set foot there. But all of those islands were either once connected to larger land masses or are close enough to other parts of land to be colonized by swimming snakes. Ilha da Queimada Grande used to be a part of the mainland, for instance, until rising sea levels cut it off.

 

Much of the Pacific and Indian Oceans are warm enough to support sea snakes (virtually all of them venomous), so many of the islands in those areas have been colonized already. Some of the Pacific islands, like Tuvalu, Nauru, and Kiribati, don’t have land snakes but do have local sea snakes. But most of those islands are pretty close together. Other island nations, like New Zealand, Greenland, Cape Verde, and Iceland, are largely too far away to have allowed snakes to take up residence there. The same goes for Hawaii, a distant volcanic archipelago.

 

 

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This Is the No. 1 Sign There's a Snake in Your House, Experts Say

 

Coming across a snake in the wild sends people running for the hills, but it's even worse when a snake has found its way into your space. When searching for food or for shelter, snakes can and will slither their way into your house—and they're even more likely to do so when summer turns to fall. Despite being sneaky, however, this creepy creature tends to leave behind some obvious signs that it has taken up residence in your space. To avoid stumbling on a snake by surprise, read on to learn how you can tell there's one hiding in your house.

 

If there's a snake in your house, you may end up hearing it before you actually see it. Jack Miller, a pest control expert and founder of How I Get Rid Of, says that hearing mysterious noises in small spaces is a common sign of a snake's presence, especially "if it's a sound that you're not familiar with and it doesn't sound like your run-of-the-mill household pests like rats."

 

Michael Dean, a pest expert and co-founder of landscaping website Pool Research, says that if you're dealing with a snake, these strange noises are likely to come from enclosed or dark spaces, such as your walls, crawlspace, flooring, or attic. Snakes are likely to make a crinkling paper noise or a slow-moving, scratching noise similar to that of sandpaper, per the Wildlife Company, an animal control company.

 

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Texas woman says she found a python crawling out of her toilet

 

It's the stuff of nightmares-finding a snake in your toilet.

 

That's exactly what happened to one woman in Andrews.

 

Patty Tidwell woke up to use the restroom in the middle of the night and found a massive python had crawled through the sewer line and out of the toilet.

 

 

"I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and I open my bathroom door, switched on the light and there was this big python hanging out on the back of the toilet hanging into my sink. It freaked me out, never expected that," Tidwell said.

 

Tidwell said animal control arrived in less than five minutes, and ended up using her hair straightener to remove the snake.

 

Andrews police officers believe the python is someone's pet because it was big and looked well fed.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

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Tidwell said animal control arrived in less than five minutes, and ended up using her hair straightener to remove the snake.

 

😬 

 

Bye bye hair straightener. 

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by clietas

[China]

2 minutes ago, clietas said:

 

😬 

 

Bye bye hair straightener. 

 

 

The real question is did the hair straightener straighten out the snake?

[Jabbyrwock]

56 minutes ago, China said:

 

The real question is did the hair straightener straighten out the snake?

 

There's more than one way to ...ah... straighten a snake.

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'I was fixing to jump through the ceiling' | AC tech comes face-to-face with snake inside Houston bank

 

A Houston air conditioning technician recently found himself living on the wild side with a work hazard you would not expect inside a bank.

 

Jesse with Kleen Air tells KHOU 11 he was changing the filters in the attic at the Comerica Bank off Highway 290 and Fairbanks N. Houston on Wednesday morning when he came face-to-face with what looked like a 6-foot rattlesnake.

 

He managed to capture a photo after calling bank employees for help.

 

Jesse said the bank called 911, and police came out to help move the ladder around so he could find a way to get out without getting bit.

 

The snake had him blocked in for a while, and Jesse said he ended up leaving behind his tools to get away.

 

He’ll soon return to get his things and finish the job, however. A pest control company was called out to help relocate the animal.

 

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[Riggo-toni]

Relocate?  ****ing kill the thing!

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'THEIR HOUSE NOW': Terrifying 'snake orgy' in woman's laundry

 

Skin-crawling footage has emerged showing a group of tangled green snakes slithering on a window sill in a North Queensland home.

 

Kylie Coates couldn’t believe her eyes when she made the heart-stopping discovery in her laundry.

 

She shared a terrifying clip of her uninvited visitors to the Townsville Snake Catchers Facebook, asking: “Is this a tree snake orgy going on in our old laundry!?”

 

At least two are seen peering at the camera.

 

 

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Meet the man who pulled nearly 100 snakes from under an SF Bay Area home

 

Snakes on a plane?

 

No, but there was definitely a movie-worthy amount of snakes living under a house in Santa Rosa, a city in California's Wine County 60 miles north of San Francisco.

 

Al Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, responded to a call Oct. 2 from a woman who said a snake den was under her home. 

 

On the first visit, Wolf found 59 newly born babies and 22 adults, as well as a dead cat and a dead possum. 

 

On two follow-up visits, Wolf wrangled 11 more adults. 

 

 

"I've been doing this 32 years," said Wolf, who runs the Sebastopol-based nonprofit offering wildlife rescue and relocation. "I get calls with snakes under the house pretty often. The most I've done under a house is four or five."

 

Wolf noted that he has seen dens the size of the one under the Santa Rosa house in the wild, but never in an urban area.

 

All the snakes were Northern Pacific rattlesnakes, the only venomous snake found in Northern California. Southern California has another seven species of venomous snakes, Wolf said. The Northern Pacific isn't aggressive unless provoked.

 

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[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

I used to have a pet snake named Applesauce. Kept him at the school where I taught… came in one day and that mother****er had opened the lid off his terrarium which was way up high on top of a bookcase, somehow gotten down and gotten out of my office even though the door was closed and locked. Fortunately I found him before I had to tell anyone. He was in the music closet which was also closed and locked on top of a ukulele.

[China]

3 hours ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

I used to have a pet snake named Applesauce. Kept him at the school where I taught… came in one day and that mother****er had opened the lid off his terrarium which was way up high on top of a bookcase, somehow gotten down and gotten out of my office even though the door was closed and locked. Fortunately I found him before I had to tell anyone. He was in the music closet which was also closed and locked on top of a ukulele.

 

I suppose you had to discipline him, after which I presume you said "Who's the boss, Applesauce?"

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Watch a fearless kingsnake devour a venomous timber rattlesnake in Georgia

 

A Georgia woman witnessed a “once-in-a-lifetime wildlife interaction” when she saw a large Eastern kingsnake kill and eat a timber rattlesnake, according to the state’s Wildlife Resources Division.

 

Brandi Johnson was walking near her home in Dexter, Georgia, when she spotted the two snakes closing in on each other and began recording. Dexter is about 40 miles southeast of Macon.

 

“Brandi was able to identify both snakes immediately, and made sure to remain a safe distance away as not to disturb the snakes and allow nature to take its course,” the state reported in a Facebook post.

 

Her video shows the snakes were moving parallel on a dirt road when the kingsnake suddenly lunges and bites the rattlesnake. The two then struggle as the kingsnake coils itself around the rattlesnake.

 

https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeResourcesDivisionGADNR/videos/618086219322445

 

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[TradeTheBeal!]

9 hours ago, China said:

Watch a fearless kingsnake devour a venomous timber rattlesnake in Georgia

 

A Georgia woman witnessed a “once-in-a-lifetime wildlife interaction” when she saw a large Eastern kingsnake kill and eat a timber rattlesnake, according to the state’s Wildlife Resources Division.

 

Brandi Johnson was walking near her home in Dexter, Georgia, when she spotted the two snakes closing in on each other and began recording. Dexter is about 40 miles southeast of Macon.

 

“Brandi was able to identify both snakes immediately, and made sure to remain a safe distance away as not to disturb the snakes and allow nature to take its course,” the state reported in a Facebook post.

 

Her video shows the snakes were moving parallel on a dirt road when the kingsnake suddenly lunges and bites the rattlesnake. The two then struggle as the kingsnake coils itself around the rattlesnake.

 

https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeResourcesDivisionGADNR/videos/618086219322445

 

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1 hour ago, TryTheBeal! said:

 

 

 

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Deadly brown snake hitches 110 kilometre ride in driver's car

 

A Queensland driver found himself carpooling with an unwanted passenger this week after accidentally giving a 100 kilometre ride to a deadly eastern brown snake.

Thankfully, a "one in a million" encounter brought the driver into contact with David Voss of Gladstone Region Snake Catchers.

Mr Voss said he had just pulled into a shopping centre on Monday when he received a call from the frantic motorist.

When he found the car the snake catcher saw the large reptile on the front seat.

 

 

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[Pwyl]

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An AirAsia flight was diverted after passengers spotted a snake on their plane

 

Passengers on an AirAsia flight had their trip rerouted after spotting an uninvited passenger on the plane.

 

In a video shared on TikTok by user @edal8808, what appears to be a long snake can be seen slithering through an overhead light fixture. In the caption, the user wrote that the flight, which was headed from the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur to Tawau, had to instead make an emergency landing in Kuching, according to a translation of the text.

 

 

AirAsia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NPR. However, the airline's chief security officer Liong Tien Ling confirmed the incident in a statement to CNN Türk.

 

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Venomous Snake Bites Man After Being Sealed in Wine Bottle for a Year

 

After opening bottles of snake wine, a man in China was surprised to find a living, venomous snake, which bit him.

 

The man hurried to a hospital for treatment and survived.

 

 

The man had purchased three bottles of medicinal wine with snakes soaking in them as a remedy for his ill son. He waited a year after purchasing the bottles to open them.  Unexpectedly, the snakes had reportedly “come back to life,” according to the China Times. Apparently, when snakes encounter harsh environments, they often enter a dormant state and can survive for several years. Additionally, jars of the wine cannot be completely sealed, so a small amount of air enters.

 

In 2013, a woman in China was bitten after opening a bottle of snake wine to pour in more wine. The snake within, which had been in the bottle for three months, leaped out and bit her. Other bite incidents stemming from snake wine occurred in China in 2009 and 2001.

 

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State police race against time to save man bitten by own pet snake, one of deadliest in the world

 

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Police and health officials in Virginia raced against time to help save the life of a man in Richmond who was bitten by his own pet viper listed as one of the deadliest snakes in the world.

 

According to Virginia State Police, they got the call from the Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department requesting the “expedited delivery” of antivenom treatment from the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center.

 

Police say the man was bitten by his own pet snake overnight. The snake, an African Pit Viper, is listed as one of the top ten deadliest snakes in the world.

 

VCU hospital had already given the man antivenom treatment from the Smithsonian National Zoo, however, officials say they still needed to give him another dose in order to “save his life.” 

 

A State Police sergeant was able to get the anti-venom from an employee at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center and rushed from Virginia Beach to Richmond.
 

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[stoshuaj]

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/snake-sightings-startle-a-northern-virginia-community.amp

“Residents in one Northern Virginia community say they’re spotting rattlesnakes and more in their own backyards……

 

……..Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources says rattlesnakes are apparently rare in the Commonwealth. The snake most commonly seen in Virginia is the Copperhead snake. But the one place where rattlesnakes

are more common is in Prince William County.”

 

perfect, can’t wait for the new stadium to have a rattlesnake infestation

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WATCH: 2-metre-long snake found hiding in Calif. man's couch

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'Do not get close to that thing!' | North Texas family finds rattlesnake coiled on couch that they were sitting on just 10 minutes prior

 

Imagine this: You're sitting on the couch, watching the Dallas Mavericks play against the Utah Jazz in the NBA Playoffs and you leave your spot for 10 minutes to eat some some pizza. 

 

When you come back, there's a coiled-up rattlesnake on the very couch you were just sitting on. 

 

And it's not just staring back at you. It's rattling, too.

 

Jacob Gamble of Decatur, Texas, knows this experience firsthand. And he shared to social media the harrowing video that showed his encounter with a highly venomous snake, which claimed his family couch during Game 3 of the Mavericks-Jazz series last Thursday night. 

 

 

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[Fan since a Fetus]

On 12/25/2021 at 12:52 PM, China said:

Deadly brown snake hitches 110 kilometre ride in driver's car

 

A Queensland driver found himself carpooling with an unwanted passenger this week after accidentally giving a 100 kilometre ride to a deadly eastern brown snake.

Thankfully, a "one in a million" encounter brought the driver into contact with David Voss of Gladstone Region Snake Catchers.

Mr Voss said he had just pulled into a shopping centre on Monday when he received a call from the frantic motorist.

When he found the car the snake catcher saw the large reptile on the front seat.

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

I like how they blurred out it's face to protect it's identity.

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Single snake sparks power outage for nearly 10,000 homes in Fukushima

 

For about a week now, the air conditioner has become a lifeline for many across Japan struggling to do anything in this intense heat. For example, in Nagoya a school’s AC broke down, causing 25 students to complain of heatstroke-like symptoms and classes being cancelled for the rest of the day.

 

So, you can imagine the disturbance in the force caused by 9,800 voices crying out at once when their air conditioners all got cut off at the same time. The incident occurred in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, on 29 June when a blackout swept through a large section of the city.

 

Normally, in cases like this, one would assume that there was too much load on the power station, but actually everything was running fine until about 2:10 in the afternoon. Tohoku Electric Power traced the outage to a substation in the city, and when they investigated it they found the charred remains of a snake. Smoke from the burning serpent had also caused six fire trucks to be dispatched to the scene.

 

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