{"id":274900,"date":"2026-02-09T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:39:10","slug":"geelong-womans-narrow-escape-after-encountering-venomous-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274900\/","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":274901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-274900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}