Only in Australia moment as tradie removes a huge snake from the middle of the road – all while sucking on an ice block
- Tradie wrangles a snake off of a road while eating an ice block
- The carpet python lunges at the unfazed, bare-handed man
- He managed to move the carpet python into nearby brush
A tradie has been captured wrangling a snake off a country road while enjoying an ice block.
The only-in-Australia moment happened in Nimbin, an hour’s drive from Byron Bay in northern NSW, after the driver who filmed the incident was stopped by the man in a high-vis shirt struggling to remove the carpet python from the middle of a road.
in the extraordinary video the man did not put down his popsicle, only placing it in his mouth temporarily to free up a hand while he tries to move the snake from the road and out of danger.
The man initially attempts to grab the snake’s tail with his bare hand but then switches tactics as the reptile lunges at him.
‘Oh, he got him,’ one of the people in the car says.
The python then rears back ready to strike as the man leaves the frame for a second to grab a tree branch to keep himself some distance away from the snake.
‘Oh look he’s still eating his ice block,’ a man in the car jokes.
The tradie then starts circling the snake as he uses the branch to keep the snake at bay while he successfully gets a hold of its tail.
He then calmly but swiftly drags the snake off of the road and into the nearby brush.
‘It looks like he’s done this before, look, he didn’t even drop his ice block,’ the observer says.
As if impressed with his own effort, the tradie then took a last look at the snake in the tall grass before taking a another bite out of the ice block.
A tradie has been recorded wrangling a carpet snake off of a road in Nimbin, an hour’s drive from Byron Bay, all while he ate his ice block
The snake rescuer was in relative safety as carpet pythons don’t produce any venom but can still leave behind a nasty bite.
The snake in the video looks to be around two metres long, with most carpet pythons growing to between two to three metres.
One of the largest carpet pythons on record was found in Ipswich, two hours north of Nimbin in Queensland, and measured 3.9metres long and weighed 14.5kg.
Their prey consists of small mammals, birds and insects, however there have been reports of household pets such as small dogs or cats also being killed by them.
Because they’re non-venomous, carpet pythons have become popular pets because of their generally docile nature when they’re fully grown.
The bare-handed man used a tree branch to keep the python at bay as he successfully grabbed it by the tail and dragged it into nearby brush, all while sucking on an ice block
