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Strange but True: Snake Jams Printer

Thursday December 4, 2008
Lending credence to some viral show-and-tell presentations we've seen in the past -- the mouse caught in a printer cartridge, for example, and the snake in the computer -- Australia's Gold Coast Bulletin reports that a Lismore couple investigating the cause of a printer jam found a three-foot-long brown tree snake stuck inside.

Brown tree snakes are poisonous, don't you know.

They managed to prod the reptile out of the printer, the Bulletin says, but Denis and Marie Matthews are pretty sure it's still lurking somewhere in their home office. Now would be the time to call Pest Control.

Read more: Snake Caught Up in Printer Queue

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