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– Alex White thought he was watching a huge worm twist into lettuce wrapped in plastic he had just brought home from a Sydney supermarket, until the snake’s tongue touched it. “I was completely scared,” White recalls, according to the AP. It was a pale-headed poisonous snake that, according to authorities, made a 540-mile journey to Sydney, Australia, from a packaging plant in the Australian city of Toowoomba, wrapped in the supermarket supply chain. chilled probably made the cold-blooded young man turn into a stupor until White bought the lettuce at the ALDI grocery store Monday evening and went home with the bike with salad and snake in his backpack.
White and his partner Amelia Neate watched as the snake moved as soon as the lettuce was unpacked on the kitchen table. They also realized that the plastic wrap was torn and that the snake could escape, so they quickly filled the reptile with lettuce in a plastic container to store food. White called the WIRES rescue organization and a snake handler took her away that night. Before the manipulator arrived, White said WIRES had told him, “If it bites you, you have to go to the hospital very quickly.” ALDI investigates how a snake could have been found in a supermarket.
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