SYDNEY, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two motorists have recounted their shock journey with a hitchhiking snake on Thursday, after a poisonous 2.5 meter red-belly black latched onto their vehicle whilst driving on Australia's east coast.
Ted Ogier and his passenger were heading home after making a work delivery for an auto industrial supplier on Wednesday afternoon, when they realized they had an extra traveller.
"It'd come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet," Ogier told local media.
"It was probably a bit warm there."
"Then it was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in."
After snapping a few quick photos of the slithering passenger, the cool-headed driver stopped and attempted to remove snake.
"I just had a broom in the back of the ute and ... basically just got him off the car nice and safely, and just ushered him into the bushland off on the side of the road," Ogier explained.
Although the experience would have been terrifying, Ogier thinks it could have been much worse, had it been an eight-legged passenger.
"Not as frightening as getting a spider on the inside! spiders are one thing I don't like!" He said.
"But I don't like snakes much either."
