Venomous snake comes slithering out of fridge ice dispenser, Australia video shows
A woman trying to find the source of a mysterious hissing at her Australia home discovered a venomous snake hiding in the last place you’d expect — the refrigerator’s ice dispenser.
The large snake was seen squirting from the dispenser like soft-serve ice cream in the Jan. 10 video from the Adelaide Hills area of South Australia.
The reptile was identified as a venomous red-bellied black snake by Nine Network in Australia. The species grows to 6.5 feet in length and typically tries to avoid humans but will latch on “and chew savagely” when cornered, experts say.
A snake wrangler with Adelaide Hills Snake Catcher arrived to find the snake’s middle section stuck in the ice dispenser, leaving its tail and head dangling, video shows.
“I don’t believe that,” he is heard saying, while trying to force the snake out from the other side of the door.
He resorted to grabbing the snake with one bare hand and tugging it out of the dispenser, the video shows. It was then quickly placed into a cloth bag.
“You just never know where (you’re) ... going to catch them,” the company wrote on Facebook.
The homeowner was identified as Gail Auricht and she says an odd hissing noise led her to search an entertainment area at the family’s home, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“I could only see the bottom half of the snake at first sighting, and it was using a lot of force because it was managing to pull the door which was setting the (fridge) alarm off,” she told the network.
“It was just a bit surreal because I’ve not seen a snake hanging off the fridge before. It did take my breath away.”
Adelaide Hills Snake Catcher said the reptile may have been looking for tasty frogs when it got stuck.
Commenters on social media called the incident the “stuff of nightmares” and “wildly terrifying.”
It’s likely the snake got into the dispenser the same way it was coming out, but one person suggested it might have been hiding among groceries stored earlier in the fridge.
“When your fridge starts dispensing snakes, it’s time to get out of Dodge!” one commenter wrote.
“My fridge doesn’t have a snake dispenser. I’m mildly envious,” another said.
This story was originally published January 12, 2024 at 12:03 PM with the headline "Venomous snake comes slithering out of fridge ice dispenser, Australia video shows."