{"id":427230,"date":"2024-12-01T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427230"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Driver-in-Australia-finds-deadly-tiger-snake-on-her-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Driver-in-Australia-finds-deadly-tiger-snake-on-her-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in Australia finds deadly tiger snake on her leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver cruising down a highway in eastern Australia felt something on her foot and discovered a deadly tiger snake &#8220;slithering up her leg&#8221;, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found her on the side of the Monash Freeway near Melbourne, barefoot and in a state of shock after her Friday morning encounter with the reptile, Victoria state police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The woman explained that she had been travelling at 80kph (50 mph) on the freeway when she felt something on foot and looked down to find a deadly tiger snake slithering up her leg,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remarkably, she was able to fend the snake off her and weave through traffic before pulling over and leaping out of her car to safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tiger snakes, named after their coloured stripes, are among the most venomous snakes in the world, according to the state&#8217;s wildlife department.<\/p>\n<p>Thick bodied and about a metre (three feet) long, they respond to threats by raising themselves off the ground and flattening their heads and neck, it says.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman was assessed by paramedics to ensure she had not been bitten, and a snake catcher removed the &#8220;massive&#8221; snake from the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>djw\/dhw<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/bd7521213ef3c8e46be2644c385bf8ab.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>An Australian snake handler captures a deadly tiger snake found by a driver on her leg<\/p>\n<p>-Handout<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver cruising down a highway in eastern Australia felt something on her foot and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}