Aussie comforter
Rachel Bloor went to bed in the oppressive Australian heat few nights ago. Her husband and her dog were here beside her as usual. Rachel woke up because she felt something warm was on top of her sheet and it was heavy and uncomfortable. Groggy she guessed it was the family dog again. But when she reached out under the covers, she felt something smooth move beneath her hand. “To my horror, I realized it wasn’t my dog,” Bloor told the BBC. Bloor said she immediately woke her husband and asked him to turn on the lights. “He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There is like a 2.5-meter python on you,’” she recalled. Her first concern, Bloor said, was getting the family dogs out of the room before anything escalated. “I thought if my Dalmatian realized that there’s a snake there, it is gonna be carnage,” she said. After her husband removed the dogs, Bloor carefully worked her way out from beneath the covers. Out of bed with the lights on Rachel realized a roughly 8-foot, snake had made its way into her bedroom Monday night. The sneaky snake found her very warm and comfortable.
Rachel Bloor ushered the large reptile out through a second-story bedroom in Brisbane, Queensland. “I grabbed him,” she said, adding that the python “didn’t seem overly freaked out.” “He sort of just wobbled in my hand,” she said. “It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the window shutter,” she said. The snake was identified as a carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal regions. Despite the frightening encounter, Bloor said she was relieved it was not another animal. “Toads freak me out,” she said. Rachel suspects the snake entered through plantation shutters on her window and crawled onto the
Snake catcher Kurt Whyte told ABC News that snake activity has increased with breeding season over and eggs beginning to hatch. “Obviously, with this hot weather, we’re seeing plenty of them getting out and about and basking in this sun,” Whyte said. Whyte added that while snake populations have not necessarily increased, sightings are becoming more common as housing developments expand into Australian bushland. He warned that common household features could provide easy access for snakes seeking shelter. “Unfortunately, the gaps in our garage doors… provide the perfect entry points for a snake,” Whyte said.
Aussie excitement
People asked me if it rains upside down in Australia.
I said: “Yes, but down here, we call it evaporation.”
How can you tell when a jet landing in Australia is from England?
When the engines are turned off the whining still continues.
What happens if you commit a crime in Australia?
Oh please, they’re a modern country. You go to jail unless you are a politician.
What do you call a female thief in Australia?
A Steala
January 19th Birthdays
1991 – Erin Sanders, 1946 – Dolly Parton, 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, 1948 – Paula Deen
1994 – Josh Dylan, 1809 – Edgar Allen Poe, 1971 – Shawn Wayans, 1992 – Logan Lerman