{"id":63940,"date":"2025-08-13T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:45:06","slug":"watch-venomous-snake-found-napping-in-model-train-set-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63940\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Venomous snake found napping in model train set tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 12 (UPI) &#8212; An Australian reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland home where residents discovered a venomous snake napping in a model train set tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart McKenzie of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24\/7 was called out to a home where a resident spotted what he initially thought to be a rubber snake on his model train set.\n<\/p>\n<p>The snake catching business said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SunshineCoastSnakeCatchers\/videos\/4198299323726163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that the reptile was a &#8220;healthy and rather large&#8221; brown tree snake that &#8220;decided to have a sleep in the train set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post included a video of McKenzie safely removing the snake from a tunnel on the model train tracks.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie says in the video that the snake is preparing to shed its skin. The video ends with the snake being released into a tree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back in the tree where you belong, away from the model train set,&#8221; McKenzie tells the serpent.<\/p>\n<p>Brown tree snakes are venomous, but are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/faqs\/what-brown-treesnake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> generally not considered dangerous<\/a> to adult humans.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 12 (UPI) &#8212; An Australian reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland home where residents discovered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63941,"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-63940","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\/63940","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=63940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}