{"id":490743,"date":"2026-06-23T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:14:08","slug":"family-finds-large-snake-hiding-behind-living-room-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490743\/","title":{"rendered":"Family finds large snake hiding behind living room TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 22 (UPI) &#8212; A professional reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland, Australia, home where a large snake was found hiding behind the living room TV.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart McKenzie of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24\/7 was called out to a home where a snake found its way inside.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This snake wanted to watch a movie with the family, but was on the wrong side of the telly,&#8221; the business said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1036817678840089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a>. &#8220;Unfortunately he wasn&#8217;t quite welcome to stay, so Stu was called to professionally relocate!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post included video of McKenzie using a hook to remove the &#8220;cheeky&#8221; snake from the TV mount and wrangle it into a bag.<\/p>\n<p>The home&#8217;s resident explained the snake must have gotten inside while the doors and windows were left open.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was relocated to a safe outdoor area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 22 (UPI) &#8212; A professional reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland, Australia, home where a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,5593,111,139,69,5591,147,5592,406],"class_list":["post-490743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490743","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=490743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}