As if grocery shopping wasn't stressful enough ....

[Diamond_Dog]

Snake slithers out of spice shelves at Sydney supermarket

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58253378

Helaina Alati, 25, was at a Sydney store on Monday when the 3m non-venomous snake slithered out.

The Woolworths supermarket lies on the edge of a large expanse of bushland on the city's north- west outskirts.

But encountering a snake in the spice aisle is not what Ms Alati expected.

Fortunately for both parties, Ms Alati is a wildlife rescuer and familiar with snakes.

"I just turned my head and he was about 20cm from my face, just looking straight at me," she told the BBC.

She did a double-take but remained calm. No one else was around.

Recognising it instantly as a diamond python, Ms Alati knew it wasn't venomous as it protruded and flicked its tongue.

"He was looking straight at me the whole time, almost like he was saying: 'Can you take me outside please?'" she said.

[lame54]

1. Was he wearing a mask?

[The Wizard]

2. looking for rodents.

[dweller]

4. Which would seem more worrisome

Since it came INSIDE the store for them …


✌🏻

[Mosby]

7. Bingo.

As someone with first hand knowledge, mice are really hard to get rid of once they find ways into grocery stores.

[Sherman A1]

8. Yes, they are!

Been there and it is an uphill climb to get rid of the little “darlings”.

When I was working produce many years ago. The exterminator came in on a Monday morning before the store opened, pulled the bottoms off the refrigerated cases in the department and layer glue boards from one end to the other covering about 60 feet of case. The next week they were back and pulled the fronts again to retrieve the glue boards. They stopped counting at 100 and were only about halfway down the racks.

[luvs2sing]

3. I remember the grocery clerk finding..

a tarantula in a box of bananas. I think I was about seven. He showed it to me, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

I would probably think the snake was cool, too.

[rurallib]

10. I found one in a box of bananas as a part time produce clerk

in high school. The whole pile went out the back door

[mainer]

5. Lucky snake found just the right human

Here in the US someone would've just shot it.

[hlthe2b]

6. Would have made my day--Held it to the anti-masker morons attempting to get in my face.

[Deuxcents]

11. 😎

[canetoad]

9. Seems early for snake season

Even in Sydney, but apparently the warm weather is bringing them out a month or two earlier than usual.

[liberaltrucker]

12. Learn something new every day

Australia has non-venomous fauna. Who knew?