Brown snake found in kitchen of suburban home: Merriwa NSW trends now

Brown snake found in kitchen of suburban home: Merriwa NSW trends now
Brown snake found in kitchen of  suburban home: Merriwa NSW trends now

Brown snake found in kitchen of suburban home: Merriwa NSW trends now

Terrifying moment a 'very angry' brown snake - the most venomous in the world - is found in the kitchen of a suburban home: 'Let's burn the house down!' A 'monster' six foot long brown snake has been spotted in a rural NSW town Couple said when they saw the snake they considered burning their house down It took local snake catcher Andrew Luke more than an hour to catch the reptile Mr Luke said the brown snake was the biggest he had ever handled 

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A 'monster' six-foot-long brown snake in a family's kitchen has led to a snake catcher being embroiled in a more than an hour struggle with the deadly reptile.

Rob and De Patterson encountered the terrifying and angry brown snake in their home in NSW's Upper Hunter region earlier this week.

Mr Patterson took to Facebook to thank local snake wrangler Andrew for removing the world's most venomous snake from their almost 700-acre property.

The Merriwa local said the catcher saved him from 'having to burn the house down'.

A 'monster' six-foot-long brown snake in a family's kitchen has led to a snake catcher being embroiled in a more than an hour struggle with the deadly reptile

A 'monster' six-foot-long brown snake in a family's kitchen has led to a snake catcher being embroiled in a more than an hour struggle with the deadly reptile

Rob and De Patterson encountered the terrifying and angry brown snake in their home in Merriwa, in NSW's Upper Hunter region earlier this week

Rob and De Patterson encountered the terrifying and angry brown snake in their home in Merriwa, in NSW's Upper Hunter region earlier this week

His wife Ms Patterson told NewsLocal she had been seeing more and more snakes in recent weeks but never had one inside her home.

'He got into the pantry and under a little freezer and we couldn't see where it went so I said we'll just burn the house down but [my husband] wasn't in favour of that,' she said.

'I've seen plenty around outside but never had one in the house … [but we have] a lot of feed [at the moment] and with the recent mice plague … and now all the rain, frogs and there's a dam not far from the house … he was very big, fat and healthy.'

Snake wrangler and local paramedic Andrew Luke came to the family's rescue but it wasn't easy, taking him more than an hour to remove the biggest snake he has ever handled.

'The six foot plus brown snake was quite agitated about being interrupted from its lovely hiding place under the freezer … we spent the next little while trying to coax him out of his little hidey hole and get him on his way,' Mr Luke said

'It's certainly the biggest one

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