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Nah mate, here in australia you have to call 999;)

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why it was only 30cm long and more or less harmless

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:confused: But he's only little and very beautiful.

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did you know 911 works in Australia as well? i tested it and was redirected immediately to 000. i felt very sorry for wasting the operator's time.

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what would you expect a poofter to do? i'd be screaming my lungs out.

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30cms? Thats nearly 12 INCHES FFS! Even I'd be a little nervous;)

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<spits coffee out>

:rofl:

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A BROWN snake that bit a woman at Nundah last night has been described as three feet long and as round as a golf ball. It was initially believed the woman was bitten in the Centro Toombul shopping centre but witnesses said the woman was bitten at the nearby Toombul train station.

It is believed the 35-year-old woman was at the train station around 7.30pm when she walked through a clump of bushes and was bitten on her ankle.

She then walked to the shopping centre for help.

"She said it was a brown snake, three feet long and as round as a golf ball," one witness said.

Shopping centre staff bandaged the woman's leg while waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.

The woman was taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital in a stable condition

Toombul isn't remote, not even really an outer suburb of Brisbane, its a residential suburban area, close to Chermside.

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Rail tracks, close to reserves, green areas around the airport, perfect spot for them.:D

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Not many deaths per year by snake bites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_in_Australia

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Fair slither from the airport to Toombul station though. Wish I'd seen it crossing that road, used to take my life in my hands every time I went to work by train from there! The Bloke always told me there were no snakes in that bit of Brisbane too :mad:
Have to agree with Alfresco though, not many deaths from snakes - I actually couldn't believe it when that one came up online today, wasn't even looking for it!

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lived in Perth for 6.5 years now. only seen one live snake and it backed off when it saw us!

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Had another snake encounter in the back yard today. :rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure this was just a tree snake but the little shi+ made me jump... It saw me before I saw it and I must have startled it. So it decided to have a lunge at me from on top of the water tank.

Little, but over a metre long. Quite pretty in a startled lunging kind of way.

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Yes a beautiful little Green Treesnake, they rarely if ever bite and are totally harmless anyway. Good find :thumbup:

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I used to work in a massive complex out at the airport. Anyway there are a lot of snakes out that way, mostly red-bellied blacks. Because our front door was an automatic sliding door snakes would just freely roam in and slip under the door crack outside of business hours. They mostly came in once autumn hits, with the view of finding somewhere to hibernate.

One day I was sitting at my desk when I swore blind I saw a snake come out from one of our manager's offices. I went over to investigate as she wasn't in there at the time. As I got there I saw about 5 baby red-bellied blacks making way for the door. The mummy snake had obviously gone in there to give birth during the colder months and they all came out once the weather warmed up. They must have been in the for a long time if that was the case and that manager had no idea