Footage reveals a lady’s exceptionally calm response to an extremely poisonous snake disrupting her cigarette break, merely stating she understood staying cooled was the ‘safest’ thing to do.
The clip was published on Facebook by Harrison’s Gold Coast and Brisbane Snake Catcher, a business established by reptile professional Tony Harrison.
The video reveals an eastern brown snake crawling as much as a lady cigarette smoking a cigarette – who ends up being 24-year-old Ayla Manson, among Harrison’s staff members.
She had actually simply gotten rid of the animal from a home in Tamborine, Queensland, where it was concealing beneath a refrigerator, and transferred it into the bush prior to taking a seat for a break.
The Facebook post said: “The stigma around snakes being aggressive or violent has sadly taken over most people’s perception.
“This is a fantastic example that they don’t want to hurt us and the only reason they do attack is they’re scared of something significantly larger than them the bite is only to say back off!
“They are an innocent animal which just wants to go along its day without interference.”
As the snake came wincing back towards Manson, she didn’t precisely appear to enjoy the scenario she remained in, however delicately continued cigarette smoking.
“Yeah I think it’s onto me, it’s moving onto my pants,” she can be heard stating in the video, later on including: “I don’t like that.”
When someone else says it’s ‘sniffing your butt’, Manson quipped: “I felt that.”
The company later said it wanted to share the video to educate others about what to do if approached by a snake.
Manson told the Herald Sun: “We already knew the personality of the snake was chill that day.
“I knew in that moment, the safest thing was to stay still.
“Had I panicked and gotten up, it would have tried to defend itself and I would have been at risk of a bite.”
Her co-worker Brooke Harrison said the company had been criticised for posting the video online, saying some viewers believed it could inspire curious children to head out looking for snakes.
But she said: “We posted it because we want people to learn from this.
“The reality is, people in Australia will come across a snake in their life and if they don’t know how to handle it, things will go wrong.
“Here in Queensland, we do have a lot more species of snakes, and we do snake releases every single day.
“We want everyone, kids and adults, to see this so they know how to handle a situation like this.
“The approach should always be don’t move and stay calm, because if we move too fast, we might scare it and face a bite.”
