{"id":268196,"date":"2025-11-07T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268196\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:20:07","slug":"watch-venomous-snake-found-hiding-inside-familys-laundry-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268196\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Venomous snake found hiding inside family&#8217;s laundry basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 6 (UPI) &#8212; An Australian snake wrangler responded to a home in Queensland to capture a laundry basket intruder that turned out to be one of the world&#8217;s most venomous snakes.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Woolston, a snake catcher and social media manager for Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24\/7, was called out to a Cashmere home where a snake wandered in through an open door.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1299366642410749\/?__cft__[0]=AZXnuxwnl37h8XymDSl4F8Ops0-CwFfEWWXdsgkCwnOhz1VFchcwezkF96RofgXEnSFw8uEJFcwthnXUTV4JdVHTDJeWzlmD96MI1GoFc70WpM9BwOMdQMyh_t_SPq92aukQrgjKmmSaOB9nfopqnfyH2-QQb8tnTtigV8Hbw330F8M_wd9nDtiW2G0Cc9LA1f6Ulc1bz7qxvZABzbGmRr2u&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The social media post<\/a> said the snake apparently &#8220;wanted to do some washing&#8221; and found its way into a laundry basket inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing in the laundry basket, sir?&#8221; Woolston asks the snake in a video of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Woolston used a hook and a protective glove to lift the snake out of the laundry and into a bag for safe transport.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was &#8220;relocated into a beautiful habitat for it to explore,&#8221; the post said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 6 (UPI) &#8212; An Australian snake wrangler responded to a home in Queensland to capture a laundry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-268196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}