Woman Finds Massive Python On Her Chest
In the dead of night on Monday, Rachel Bloor woke up to a strange heaviness on her chest.
Still groggy, she reached out, expecting to find her dog, but instead, her hand brushed against something smooth and slithery.
As she pulled the covers up to her neck, her partner flicked on the bedside lamp, confirming their worst fears.
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s like a 2.5m python on you,” Bloor recounted to the BBC.
Her first reaction was a string of expletives, followed by a frantic command to get the dogs out of the room.
“I thought if my Dalmatian realizes there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be chaos.”
With the dogs safely outside and her husband wishing he could join them, Bloor started the delicate process of freeing herself.
I was just trying to wiggle my way out from under the covers, thinking to myself, ‘Is this really happening? This is so strange!’
She suspects that the carpet python, which isn’t venomous, managed to squeeze through the shutters on her window and ended up on her bed.
Once she got the python off her, she casually started guiding it back out the way it came.
“It was so big that even though it was curled up on me, part of its tail was still hanging out of the shutter.”
“I picked it up, and surprisingly, it didn’t seem too freaked out. It just kind of wobbled in my hand.”
Her husband, on the other hand, was completely stunned, but Bloor herself was hardly rattled, having grown up around snakes on a property.
“I think if you stay calm, they stay calm.”
But she added that if it had been a cane toad—one of the country’s most troublesome and unattractive pests—that would have been a different story.
“I can’t stand them; they make me feel nauseous. So if it had been a cane toad, I would have been scared.”
Fortunately, all the animals and people involved came out of the encounter unscathed.
Carpet pythons are constrictors commonly found in coastal regions of Australia, and they typically feed on small mammals like birds.
Woman Finds Massive Python On Her Chest
