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An Australian returned to discover that his kitchen ceiling had collapsed under the weight of two large pythons apparently fighting over a mate.
David Tait entered his home to find a large portion of his ceiling had fallen and was laying on his kitchen table.
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“I knew we hadn’t had rain, so I looked around to find what had caused it,” Tait told Nine Network television on Tuesday.
He soon found what caused the mess —two non-venomous carpet pythons (9 foot, 2 inches) and (8 foot, 2 inches) long — that had slithered into a bedroom and living room. The snakes have an estimated combined weight of (100-pounds).
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Snake wrangler Steven Brown was called to remove the two snakes.
“I would assume that it was two males fighting over a female that was nearby in the roof,” Brown said. He suspected the female could still be in the ceiling or nearby.
The males were returned to the wild, but the suspected third snake hasn’t been found.
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