Man Escapes Deadly Snake Bite While Stopping Reptile From Entering Grandmother's Garage

A young man narrowly escaped getting bitten by a deadly snake in Australia after he stopped the reptile from entering his grandmother's garage.

Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 was informed about the snake, but before he arrived the man stepped in to remove the snake.

The snake catcher took to his Facebook page Sunday to issue a warning following the incident. McKenzie wrote in the post the young man grabbed the five-foot-long eastern brown snake by the tail when he spotted it slithering toward his grandmother's garage in Buderim in Sunshine Coast. After being dragged outside, the reptile "sheltered under a rock in the front garden."

"Wow, look at the size of this thing!" he can be heard saying in a video. "In Buderim of all places!"

McKenzie, armed with a metal tong, found the snake hiding under a rock, and pulled it out to the driveway. He then placed the reptile in a bag before safely relocating it.

The snake catcher warned in his post that people should not try and handle the reptiles themselves.

"Even if a snake is going inside your home or garage please dont ever try and catch or grab the snake yourself, it can potentially end very badly. The best thing to do is back away and call us to come and relocate it. Luckily the guy didn't get bitten and when he let the snake go," he wrote.

"Now its not very often we get Eastern Brown Snakes in Buderim, in fact I believe I have only caught 4 or 5 in about 7 years. This snake wasn't far from the centre of town but even so all it wanted to do was hide away from humans."

According to the Australian Museum, eastern brown snakes prefer open landscapes such as woodlands, scrublands and Savannah grasslands. They have caused more bite deaths than any other snake in Australia.

Last week, Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 was called to a home after a snake had a mating mix-up as it confused a garden hose with another reptile nearby. The owner of the house saw the snake had wrapped itself around a garden hose. A representative of the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers mentioned on Facebook the male eastern brown snake "must have been confused," after finding another reptile near the long rubber hose.