Australian Kim Beachy, from Jellybee, New South Wales, was horrified when she was about to pick up a box of food her daughter had left outside and came across a snake inside her shoe.
“I went out to the front porch to get my daughter’s lunch box that I had forgotten outside for a while, and when I bent over to pick it up, a snake was in the shoe, and I came face to face with this little creeper that was curled up inside my daughter’s mountain bike shoes, who was so happy to find me,” Beachy said. On this snake, not her.
“I was pretty sure it was a red-bellied black rattlesnake,” Beachy added.
The bite of the red-bellied black snake is characterized by severe swelling that causes pain, prolonged bleeding, local necrosis or skin death, which sometimes leads to amputation. Despite this, it did not cause any recorded deaths.
