Screengrab from video/Helaina Alati

By Canadian Press

Woman comes face-to-face with snake in Australia supermarket

Aug 18, 2021 | 1:53 PM

CANBERRA, Australia – Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came face-to-face with a huge snake.

The head of the three-metre-long (10-foot-long) non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.

Watch the video here.

The trained snake catcher says she returned to the supermarket with a bag, caught the snake and released it into nearby woodland.

Supermarket chain Woolworths confirmed in a statement that a “slippery and rare customer was spotted in the spice aisle” on Monday morning at its store in the suburb of Glenorie on Sydney’s northwest outskirts.

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