While admiring what a good job they had done putting up and decorating their Christmas tree, a family noticed something strange poking its head out from behind an ornament — the most poisonous snake in South Africa.
“We were admiring our work when my wife, Marcela, pointed to our two cats and said she thought there might be a mouse in the tree as they were staring at it,” 55-year-old father Rob Wild told SWNS of the South Africa-based family’s unpleasant discovery. “They often bring ‘gifts’ in from the farm we live on, so Marcela went to have a look and moved a bauble and saw a snake’s head staring straight back at her.”
A quick internet search revealed that the reptile was the nation’s most venomous snake, the deadly boomslang. Wild immediately sent snake-catcher Gerrie Heyns a photo of the tree interloper, circling the snake’s head. But the situation was so ridiculous, Heyns dismissed it as a joke.
It was only after Wild gave him a ring that Heyns believed him...MORE
https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/family-finds-deadly-snake-living-in-christmas-tree/
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