{"id":463444,"date":"2026-02-09T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:50:13","slug":"geelong-womans-narrow-escape-after-encountering-venomous-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463444\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong woman&#8217;s narrow escape after encountering venomous snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has had a scare after a venomous snake more than a metre long wrapped itself around her leg.<\/p>\n<p>It got caught around her leg but it&#8217;s unclear if it tried to bite her.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows her kick the snake off of her leg and out of the way before falling over. <\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t hurt, and was seen gesturing to other people to stay away from the snake.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post the snake was about 1.2 metres long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I caught up with her, she was shaky as, it will take her a while to get over this experience,&#8221; Snake Catcher Geelong said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Snakes often move along walls and fences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The snake was removed from the garden by the snake catcher.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has had a scare after a venomous snake more than a metre long wrapped itself around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-463444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}