Stunned woman wakes up to find 8-foot python on her chest after it snuck in through bedroom window
A woman in Australia woke up to an 8-foot snake on her chest. Rachel Bloor
A Brisbane woman got the shock of her life when she woke up to find an 8-foot python resting on her chest after it slithered through her bedroom window.
Rachel Bloor initially thought her dog had curled up on top of her, but the truth became clear when her husband turned on the bedside light on Monday night.
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s like a 2.5-metre (8-foot) python on you,’” Bloor told BBC News. After a flurry of expletives, her next priority was getting their pet dogs out of the room. “I thought if my dalmatian realizes there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage,” she said.
Bloor cautiously tried to wriggle out from under the covers, thinking, “Is this really happening? This is so bizarre.” The snake, a non-venomous carpet python, likely slithered into the room through the window shutters.
The couple snapped photos of the massive striped snake before Bloor managed to guide it back out the same way it had entered.
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter. I grabbed him, but even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He just sort of wobbled in my hand,” she said.
Carpet pythons, common along Australia’s coastal regions, mainly feed on small mammals, birds, and lizards. They can grow up to 13 feet long and have occasionally been known to attack and eat domestic cats and dogs.
Bloor credits her calm reaction to growing up in the countryside, while her husband was visibly shaken by the encounter. “I think if you’re calm, they’re calm,” she said. She added that the reaction would have been very different if she had encountered a cane toad—an invasive species from Central and South America that has caused major problems across Australia.
“I can’t stand them; they make me dry retch. If it was a cane toad, it would have scared me,” Bloor said.
About Post Author
