THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
Jun 22, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
NY Post
New York Post
6 May 2023


NextImg:Snake sucked up in vacuum cleaner by couple at Australian resort

This vacation took a scary — and slithery — turn.

A man in Australia called a snake catcher to let him know his wife sucked up one of the venomous creatures in a vacuum cleaner.

The pair was at a resort in Queensland and enlisted the aid of Drew Godfrey of Hervey Bay Snake Catchers to, at first, remove the reptile from their room.

Later, the husband rang back with a startling update — his wife had already caught the animal, by vacuuming it.

“He called back quickly saying not to worry because his wife had vacuumed it up,” Godfrey told Newsweek.

“I explained that they are protected species and it would be cruel and illegal to leave it in there. They understood and were happy for us to come out.”

When Godfrey got to the hotel, he found the vacuum cleaner on the porch with a plastic bag around its nozzle to prevent the snake’s escape.

In a video the company posted on Facebook, Godfrey is seen opening the vacuum cleaner and removing the extractor bag, where the snake, which was “was unharmed, just a little dusty and confused” was trapped.

He promptly released it in a nearby bushland, away from people.

An Australian snake catcher came to the rescue of a reptile trapped in a vacuum cleaner.
Hervey Bay Snake Catchers

snake in vacuum cleaner

Drew Godfrey extracted the hatchling yellow-faced whip snake, which is venomous, but not considered dangerous to humans.
Hervey Bay Snake Catchers

“So just when you think you’ve seen it all in this job, someone calls you and says their wife has sucked a snake up with the vacuum cleaner,” the company said in the post.

The creature was a hatchling yellow-faced whip snake, which is venomous, but not considered dangerous to humans.

“I’ve been envenomated three times by these snakes,” Godfrey told the outlet. “It’s like a bee sting.”