Hunt for love turns sticky for deadly brown snake

  • Eastern brown snake got caught up in duct tape in an Adelaide garage
  • Resident told Snake Catchers Adelaide it may have been stuck for two weeks 
  • Snake catchers had to use cooking oil to release the deadly reptile from the tape 

This eastern brown snake found itself in a sticky situation when it got tangled up in duct tape in South Australia.

New video has been released of the deadly reptile which mistakenly thought the tape was a possible love match and was unable get out of its predicament.

For veteran snake catcher Rolly Burrell from rescue group Snake Catchers Adelaide, the January 20  incident in Aberfoyle Park in Adelaide’s south was one of the weirdest jobs he was called out to in 20 years in the profession.

 

An eastern brown snake got tangled up in duct take in a Aberfoyle Park garage in Adelaide’s south in January. The resident told Snake Catchers Adelaide it may have been stuck for up to two weeks

‘We received a call early one morning about a snake had been caught in tape,’  Snake Catchers Adelaide spokeswoman Ang Broadstock told Daily Mail Australia.

‘The woman believed the snake may have been stuck for up to two weeks. We were surprised of how caught up it was. The more it wriggled, the worst it got for the snake.’

It took Mr Burrell and another rescuer half-an-hour to remove the snake by carefully spraying vegetable oil between the snake and the tape.

After a rinse, the snake was closely monitored for a few days by Snake Catchers Adelaide, before it was released back into the wild.

‘It sped off like lightning,’ Ms Broadstock said. 

”It had a one centimetre  chunk missing but apart from that, it was fine.’

It took a can of cooking oil, two snake catchers and half an hour to release the deadly reptile from its sticky predicament

It took a can of cooking oil, two snake catchers and half an hour to release the deadly reptile from its sticky predicament

The brown snake is considered the world’s second-most venomous land snake and is responsible for around 60 per cent of snake bite deaths in Australia.

Envenomation can result in paralysis, uncontrollable bleeding and death if left untreated. 

The snake was unharmed and released back into wild within days of its release

The snake was unharmed and released back into wild within days of its release



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