A man was driving down a highway in Queensland, Australia, at 100 kilometers per hour when he noticed a reptile in the vehicle. It was an eastern brown snake -- highly venomous, and responsible for the majority of snakebite deaths in Australia.
The driver, a 27-year-old man identified only as"Jimmy" in a police news release published Tuesday, was heading down the Dawson Highway in the state of Queensland at 100 kilometers per hour when he noticed a reptile in the vehicle.It was an eastern brown snake -- highly venomous, and responsible for the majority of snakebite deaths in Australia."The more I moved my legs ... it just started to wrap around me.
So Jimmy killed the snake, hit the accelerator and headed for the nearest hospital. That's when a police officer spotted his car, driving at 123 kilometers per hour and pulled him over.The Eastern brown snake that Jimmy killed, photographed in the back of his truck in Queensland, Australia.
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