Imagine discovering a huge 5.2-meter (17-foot) python slithering through your house when you wake up in the middle of the night.
When Trina Hibberd of Mission Beach, Queensland, saw a large scrub python named Monty settling inside her home, she experienced just that.Trina had believed a snake was residing on her roof for years, but she never thought it would eventually choose to make its home in her bedroom.
Monty stretched from the living room to her bedroom on that fatal Monday morning in 2016, knocking over a lamp and even turning on a light.Trina posted the terrifying video of the enormous snake, which she called a “kangaroo killer,” slithering over her hat stand and wall paintings.
“It’s frigging huge! Have it locked in the bedroom waiting for help… my life is never boring,” Trina wrote.
Trina immediately called in snake expert Dave Goodwin as panic struck. The 40kg (88lb) python was peacefully sprawled over the room as if he owned it when he got there.
”When you go near them they have this real deep gurgle in their throat, which means in other words don’t come near me,” Goodwin told BBC.
It was not an easy chore to control Monty. The snake curled firmly around Goodwin’s arm as soon as he had hold of it, almost stopping his blood flow.
”He was choking my arm to death,” Goodwin later recalled.
He skillfully used tongs to divert the python before guiding it into a huge plastic home brewing container.
The massive intruder was taken out of the house and placed in a neighboring sewage pond when Monty was finally secured. From a nightmarish houseguest to an unexpected pest control officer, authorities believed he would assist curb the local rat problem.
Trina, meanwhile, was still in astonishment but relieved. She had a suspicion that the snake had spent ten years residing on her roof. Unless it had eaten too much and became trapped, it would occasionally slink down into the pool area for food and drink before making its way up to the roof right before daylight. When it was eventually taken off, she was relieved because the snake catcher had verified that it was big enough to eat kangaroos.
”I guess he just wanted to say hello—or maybe he’s gone a bit senile. Who knows?” she joked. One thing was certain—after years of sharing her home with a hidden giant, she was more than happy to say goodbye!
