A Curtin family found coastal carpet python on its driveway during the holiday season.
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00:00 Yes, this guy was found New Year in Curtin by my colleague Ben.
00:05 Collected this guy one evening.
00:07 The residents did a great job of keeping an eye on it and not obviously approaching it
00:11 because they didn't necessarily know it was a venomous or non-venomous snake.
00:13 And a lot of the snakes we share the space with are highly venomous.
00:16 And this is a coastal carpet python.
00:18 At this point, we don't know whether this snake is an escape pet
00:22 or someone has unlawfully released it here
00:26 or it's come on a vehicle or a shipping container or whatever into Canberra from up north.
00:33 So if you lose a snake, it's really important to report that to ACT Licensing and Compliance
00:38 and then they can do due diligence of being able to return that snake to you if it turns up on a call out.