This vacation took a scary — and slithery — turn.
A man in Australia called a snake catcher to let him know his wife sucked up one of the venomous creatures in a vacuum cleaner.
The pair was at a resort in Queensland and enlisted the aid 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 worry because his wife had vacuumed it up,” Godfrey told Newsweek.
“I explained that they are protected species and it would be cruel and illegal to leave it in there. They understood and were happy for us to come out.”
When Godfrey got to the hotel, he found the vacuum cleaner on the porch with a plastic bag around its nozzle to prevent the snake’s escape.
In a video the company posted on Facebook, Godfrey is seen opening the vacuum cleaner and removing the extractor bag, where the snake, which was “was unharmed, just a little dusty and confused” was trapped.
He promptly released it in a nearby bushland, away from people.
“So just when you think you’ve seen it all in this job, someone calls you and says their wife has sucked a snake up with the vacuum cleaner,” the company said in the post.
The creature was a hatchling yellow-faced whip snake, which is venomous, but not considered dangerous to humans.
“I’ve been envenomated three times by these snakes,” Godfrey told the outlet. “It’s like a bee sting.”
