100 slithery, venomous snakes found in homeowners backyard: Id be moving out!

Boo, hiss.A homeowner was terrified to discover nearly 100 venomous snakes in a writhing black knot in his backyard — in a case experts have described as a “rare occurrence.” The trouble began last week when David Stein initially spotted a handful of the slithering creatures clustered together in his garden — leading the Australia man to immediately call in a specialized removal crew.While waiting for assistance, he began researching on the internet and learned that the snakes in question — red-belly blacks — are known to climb on top of one another before giving birth to a litter.Sure enough, when snake catcher Dylan Cooper arrived at Stein’s house in suburban Sydney a few hours later to help Stein remove the creatures from his yard, the pair discovered a whopping total of 102 of the poisonous beasts — from pregnant all the way down to newborns — hidden in the mulch.“Just seeing that amount in one group, it gives you a bit of the shudders,” Stein told the Associated Press.The men rolled up their sleeves and bagged the reptiles to take them away.

Several of the snakes are believed to have given birth in the bag.“You can get a decent number like that when the babies are hatching,” Reptile Relocation owner Cory Kerewaro said.

“But to have this many venomous snakes, no one’s come across it.”In the end, the professionals counted five adult snakes and 97 offspring.A video of the captured snakes squirming in a huge pile posted on Reptile Relocation’s Facebook horrified viewers.

“I’d be moving out!” one person wrote online.“I wouldn’t even pack my stuff,” another agreed.“I’d just leave.

The house, the mulch pile.It’s all theirs now!”However, Scott Eipper, an Australian snake expert, insisted “this is an isolated incident.”“It’s certainly a very rare occurrence,” he told the AP.

The largest snake removal job Kerewaro has ever heard of was 30 non-venomous carpet Pythons.Stein was told more snakes could...