Woman finds snake curled up in Christmas tree

Canberra: It may be trying to disguise itself as tinsel, but look more closely and this is a deadly tiger snake which climbed up a Christmas tree in Australia.
A woman called Cheryl noticed the uninvited and highly venomous guest in her Melbourne home on Sunday but kept her cool – making a cup of tea while she waited for a professional snake-catcher to arrive.
"It was a tiger snake. They are very deadly but only if you hurt them," snake-catcher Barry Goldsmith, who removed the reptile, said yesterday.
"It probably came in through an open door, but Cheryl was very sensible about it. She didn't panic, she just took a photo and sent it to the snake-catcher, me," he said.
"Twenty minutes later I had it in a bag."
Australia is home to 20 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes, including the tiger snake which can grow up to 2.9m and is usually found in coastal areas. – AFP