This is the Friends of History, Debating Society. I'm John Batchworth, my colleague Jeremy

Zachis in New South Wales. And Jeremy has been telling us the story of reptiles for some time.

It started as a lark because Jeremy was teaching me that Australia has a number of venomous snakes,

severely venomous snakes, as in get to the hospital or an antitoxin kit within half an hour to

an hour. Move. Severe. Jeremy grew up with them. It didn't occur to him that it was unusual to me

until we started talking about them. But ever since then I've noticed Jeremy comes up with more

and more bizarre snake stories. Snakes on the roof who jump off and hop. Snakes bower constrictors on

the roof. Who you leave alone apparently because they're good mouse hunters. I prefer a cat

for a mouse. But bower constrictors might do in some climates. Now however we have this

unusual series of snakes venomous snakes inside, not only inside, but inside in a place you're

not supposed to find them. Jeremy this is the second week in a row I believe where people have found

snakes in their beds. What's going on? Yeah John look I'm seriously considering never sleeping in a

bed ever again after this. Now this one this is in Queensland and this case is a woman came home

had a look at a bed just changing the sheets as anybody would and found a snake in a bed. Now this

is in Queensland. The last ones we spoke about were in Sydney. So this is showing now that it's not

just a specific location problem right now, but this was actually in a location called Newtown,

which is to the west of Brisbane in a town called to Womba Sosa sub over there. It's in a built-up

area too. So we're not talking about something that's far out on a farm in a rural place.

And this lady she went into a bed she pulled back the covers and saw this little basically this

skinny little brown snake which is a juvenile brown snake. One of the more venomous ones you've

get in Brisbane in Queensland there just laying in the bed. And now this is this is baffling

job because from year to year you wouldn't get a single snake story about a snake turning up in a

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