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Young Boy Wakes Up With Snake Wrapped Around Arm, Bitten Twice

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=7f17016d2852465cb9ad0dd088c25801 (Newsweek)

It is everyone's worst nightmare: waking up to find a snake in your bed. Worse still to have that snake bite you twice on the hand before wrapping its body around your arm.

For a boy in Queensland, Australia, this nightmare became a reality. At 1:30 a.m. local time on February 8, snake catcher Steve Brown was called to a family home in Whiteside to remove the 3-foot-long coastal carpet python.

"Snakes are often found in people's homes as they seek cooler areas in the heat of the day," Brown told Newsweek.
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Any poisonous snakes in PA?
 
Carpet pythons aren't poisonous. It's still a scary sight though, because a bite from a snake that big is unpleasant,
 
As the last comment from someone who actually has a job as snake catcher seems to point out, snakes going into houses isn't an uncommon event in Australia.

Edit:
And yeah, I think there are a few venomous snakes in PA.
Not counting pets.
Most common would be the Copperhead, but there are a couple others that are less common.

 
I'd be worried about infections more than venom.
Constrictors have a pretty gnarly set of teeth too, since they're designed to help latch on to prey and prevent them from breaking free. I used to own a few constrictors (red tail boa and a ball python) and was only bit once. You have to know how to get them off of you, because if you try you pull them off, you're going to rip some skin.
 
Why would one put this link in a breaking news thread of a political debate forum?
 
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