Chilling twist after mother finds deadly eastern brown snake in her toddler son’s bedroom drawers in Melbourne
The Melbourne mother of a toddler who found a deadly easten brown snake in her toddler’s underwear drawer has said the family are still unsure how the venomous reptile got inside the house.
Speaking to 7NEWS.com.au on Tuesday, Hayley Ragona said the family doubted it got inside with the washing.
“(The snake catcher) thinks it came in with the washing, but we were away over Christmas, so we don’t know how it has gotten inside, it may have come inside through a gap (in the house),” Hayley said.
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“He suspected maybe through the washing but it’s my toddler’s washing — his clothes are quite small — I feel like if I was folding washing I would feel a five-foot brown snake (152cm) in a t-shirt,” she added.
The house where the snake was found is in Diamond Creek, about 23 kilometres north-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District.
Hayley admitted it might have come in through an open door, saying she was making sure all the kids knew to keep all the doors closed when coming in and out of the house.
Hayley admitted she believed it might have been a prank when she first saw the snake.
“I just opened the top drawer and it was full of the snake — at first I thought my nephews were playing a prank on me — then I saw it move and I was like ‘no, it’s real’,” she said.
Hayley said she was grateful the snake encounter was just a near miss, considering how inquisitive her son is with animals.
“I’m thankful it was me who found it,” she said. “He’s very inquisitive so he would have picked it up. Due to the size of it, it would probably be fatal for him (if he was bitten).”
On Monday, Eddy, along with hosts Nat Barr and Matt Doran, were visibly disturbed by the deadly find, with the 152cm snake one of the most venomous in the world.
“I’m seeing a very tidy underwear drawer — I commend that mother — but secondly, oh my gosh,” Eddy said.
“It’s in Melbourne, you’d expect that in Queensland, not Melbourne — they’re everywhere now,” she added.
Queensland Ambulance Service was called to reports of a snake bite at a property in Glenmorgan about 12.50am on Friday.
The woman, aged in her 20s, was reportedly sleeping in her bed when she was bitten on the hand by what is believed to be an eastern brown snake, paramedics said.
The woman’s family applied pressure bandages to the bite before local paramedics arrived.
A LifeFlight rescue helicopter landed at the private property and the flight medical team administered anti-venom.
The woman was then flown to Toowoomba Hospital for further treatment.
