'Massive' Deadly Snake Found On Home Roof, Rescuer Issues Warning [Photo]

A snake catcher in Australia has issued a warning after he captured a massive snake from a roof.

Snake wrangler Luke Huntley said he caught the 5-foot-long red-bellied black snake after the reptile crawled into the roof of a home in Cooroy, Queensland.

Calling it a difficult catch, Huntley told news.com.au, "I could only stand on the beams (of the ceiling) so it was a tricky catch."

Issuing a warning, he said, "It definitely goes to show a venomous snake can absolutely climb."

Huntley, who runs Snake Catcher Noosa, took to Facebook to post a photo of himself holding the large reptile while standing on a hill.

"5ft RED BELLY!!! This red belly I caught from inside a roof in Cooroy. Quick photo on a hill and then back to the bush," he captioned the photo.

The post soon went viral. While some people asserted that venomous snakes can climb, the others called the snake "massive."

"Definitely can climb ... 30 years ago i was fishing a creek bank.. took a fish up to show my bro and when i came back a red belly was hanging from a branch above where i had been sitting on a log.. the log was in the water and it was a 4ft climb up the bank to the branch that i ducked under... I'd say it was as least as big as the one in the picture as it swam across the creek," one person commented.

"Wow! Gorgeous! That’s a monster compared to the RB’s we have here in our rockwall on the dam," another person wrote.

"What a whopper," wrote another user.

The incident comes days after a red-bellied black snake was captured from the laundry room of a home in Queensland. The homeowners called snake catcher Joshua Castle after finding the reptile slithering into the laundry room. Castle arrived and found the deadly snake hiding under the wall.

"I tickled it with my snake hook. It came flying out, past my hand and legs, it went up into the washing machine. It took so long as I needed to pull the washing machine apart," Castle told International Business Times, adding that the reptile was later caught and released into nearby bushland.