Number 3The Australian Brown Snake
As the name suggests, the Australian brown snake is native to Australia. Even a baby brown snake has enough venom to kill a human. One fact about Australian brown snakes is that out of the three thousand snakebites in Australia each year, half are Australian brown snake bites. Another strange fact is that less than half of the bites contain venom- the rest are ‘dry bites’ which means that they don’t contain venom. Either way, it wouldn’t be a good experience!
there was a picture of the snake in this article, no doubt at all that this is the type of snake that we had in the garage last night...
shit!
The rest of the story...Last night b/f trying to deal w/the snake we called:
the local police, they do not do snakes.
The local fire department does not do snakes.
The wildlife protection people (the number the police gave me) do not have anyone in Dalby. (should i be surprised about that one?)
The guys could not remember the name of the guy at the jobsite that is the snake handler.
(it is on Frank's list to get his name and number today)
The loop was where he was STUCK under one of the rollers of the garage door. Moving the garage door meant freeing him. I did not like that idea what-so-ever. Once we did it, (i lost the vote) he wrapped himself around the iron work of the garage track. We tried throwing things at him (plastic kitchen utensils) and shooting him w/water from the hose... (a 45 was my choice, but sadly not available)...it was finally a swiffer floor cleaner, attached to a broom, to give Derek almost 10' of reach that got him out of the garage!
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