Feb. 6 -- An Australian snake catcher was summoned to the city of Melbourne when a driver discovered a snake coiled around her car's windshield wipers.
Toni O'Sullivan said she was driving home from a grocery store Sunday when she spotted the serpent wrapped around her windshield wipers.
O'Sullivan pulled over, vacated her vehicle and contacted authorities, who summoned Barry Goldsmith of Snake Catcher Victoria.
Goldsmith said in a Facebook post that the snake was wrapped around a side-mounted mirror when he arrived on the scene.
The snake was identified as a Stimson's python, which is not native to the area. Goldsmith said the serpent was likely an escaped pet.
"It's not poisonous, not venomous, not dangerous. It's somebody's pet, that's why I'd like to find the owner," he told the Brisbane Times. "Pet snakes are sneaky little buggers and they tend to escape from their enclosures, it's just one of those things, they are cheeky."
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