Speaker 1: Let's talk snakes on the Monash.
Speaker 2: Snakes on a plane, move over, Snakes on the Monash.
Speaker 2: She might have seen it on the weekend. A lady
Speaker 2: was driving along the Monash Freeway when she fell to
Speaker 2: tickle on her legs.
Speaker 3: She looked down, stop shocked tiger snake.
Speaker 1: Well it's about two ac.
Speaker 4: Road or something similar on the Monash.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what too urban for, not like swerving
Speaker 5: and causing a massive a.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, she managed to pull over into the emergency lane.
Speaker 2: She was waving down other motorists to try and help.
Speaker 2: When she got out of the car, she was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. The police came, and
Speaker 2: the police didn't know what to do, so they called
Speaker 2: a snake man who came and retrieved the snake and
Speaker 2: released it somewhere.
Speaker 4: Super remarkable thing to do.
Speaker 1: Pull released it around the Como.
Speaker 2: No, don't because around the Yarrow River there is snakes
Speaker 2: everywhere as well. On the community facebook pages, people are
Speaker 2: putting up picks going that weather's got hot, the snake's
Speaker 2: coming out of the bushlands. They well, more like on
Speaker 2: that track down near the right on the.
Speaker 4: End the Gardener's Creek.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, they'd Ben's Creek.
Speaker 3: Down in that Ashburton for sure.
Speaker 5: Rickards Point and down that way along the bay side
Speaker 5: they come and just normal snakes, but because of the
Speaker 5: grass between the car park and the beach, and there
Speaker 5: signs up all along there, which I figure if they've
Speaker 5: gone to the effort of putting a sign up, there's
Speaker 5: a bloody lot of them. In fact, this guy might
Speaker 5: be able to shine a light on it. Mark Pelley
Speaker 5: is a snake hunter here in Melbourne.
Speaker 6: Mark, good morning, How are you going.
Speaker 3: To a good Do we have a snake problem in Melbourne?
Speaker 6: Well, I was listening to you talk about it. Snakes
Speaker 6: along the Aow River. Yes, they caught one in an
Speaker 6: office in Collingwood. They caught another one in Richmond, just
Speaker 6: near the river again.
Speaker 3: To a hot spot.
Speaker 1: What sort of snakes?
Speaker 6: Both are tiger snakes into people's properties, actually inside the building.
Speaker 3: Will I kill you?
Speaker 6: And thinks the fifth most deadly sneak in the world.
Speaker 6: They are incredibly venomous. The venom shut down your neuros systems,
Speaker 6: so basically, you know your brain and your nervous system
Speaker 6: shut down at a sextual clotting factor, so you can bleed.
Speaker 4: You got.
Speaker 1: You're bitten by one hour and you got.
Speaker 6: You can die in as little as thirteen minutes. A
Speaker 6: tiger snake bite that didn't bite you on the peripheres.
Speaker 6: If it bites you on the like, your body, your torso,
Speaker 6: your neck, your face, you've got no time.
Speaker 4: If it gets you on the face, you're desperately.
Speaker 2: I'm so straight, straight in an ambulance to the hospital.
Speaker 2: So what do we do if we see a snake?
Speaker 2: If we're walking along a path near a river or anywhere, and.
Speaker 3: We say a snake?
Speaker 6: Snake? Absolutely? Remember the snakes are incredibly deadly, but they're
Speaker 6: equally as shy. You leave them alone. Don't leave you alone?
Speaker 6: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: Yeah, i feel like it's going to chase me. I'm
Speaker 3: not a fast runner.
Speaker 6: Of all the videos on YouTube of me catching snakes,
Speaker 6: there's not a single one of a chase a snake
Speaker 6: chasing me. It's always me chasing the stake.
Speaker 5: I'd love to see a video on YouTube of Lauren
Speaker 5: running away from the snake.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Together.
Speaker 2: One of the most dangerous snakes we have here in
Speaker 2: Melbourne is the tiger snake.
Speaker 3: The most dangerous mark.
Speaker 6: Actually, no, it's number two. The tiger snakes the fifth
Speaker 6: most mistake in the world. But in Melbourne we also
Speaker 6: have the Eastern brown, which is.
Speaker 3: The brown will get you if they bite you on
Speaker 3: the face.
Speaker 6: How long you got no time?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 6: The brown thinks interesting though, because the tiger snake they've
Speaker 6: got little things, but you feel it. Brown snakes you
Speaker 6: don't actually feel them when.
Speaker 4: They bite you.
Speaker 3: You don't want to know to go to a hospital.
Speaker 6: Yeah you know, and you just suddenly collapse to the
Speaker 6: ground your face. Oh you know, I got you on
Speaker 6: the face. Usually people tell me, oh, brownsnake head buttered
Speaker 6: me on the hen. It's totally fine. In reality, they
Speaker 6: were bitten and they didn't even know, and.
Speaker 1: They mark is it the old wise tile of like
Speaker 1: suck the venom out?
Speaker 5: Like if Lauren gets bitten on the face right right
Speaker 5: in the right cheek, should quint or I be like
Speaker 5: sucking a nack.
Speaker 3: Like a vampire.
Speaker 6: I know you really like to kiss Lauren, but unfortunately
Speaker 6: it won't work.
Speaker 3: Thank god, I think.
Speaker 2: I'd rather dive a snake, but to the face. To
Speaker 2: be honest, give me the trying to suck on my cheek.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately it works. People have been on the hands of
Speaker 6: the feet anyway, pressure and mobilization.
Speaker 1: Man, you'll be a seriousness though.
Speaker 2: It is also a lot of people walking their dogs
Speaker 2: at these places where there's a lot of snakes. How
Speaker 2: do you It sounds ridiculous, but can you teach a
Speaker 2: dog not to go near a snake? Because I've heard
Speaker 2: there's things you can do to train your dog not
Speaker 2: to go near He was a snake.
Speaker 1: Expert, not a dog expert.
Speaker 6: Actually I'm both because right now I've got a quie
Speaker 6: what you from outside of the car who's waiting for
Speaker 6: me to train their border colliage?
Speaker 4: You are, and many skills you can.
Speaker 2: Do and community training for dogs, right okay? A lot
Speaker 2: of farmers, like my friends, you have farms and things
Speaker 2: have all done them.
Speaker 6: And there's something I do a lot because unfortunately we're
Speaker 6: smart enough to stay away from snakes. Dogs see a
Speaker 6: snake and go, oh my god, what is this fantastic?
Speaker 6: Investigate with their nose, get bits in and it cost
Speaker 6: people thousands of dollars even if the dog doesn't survive.
Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, in regards to this woman on the morn ash,
Speaker 4: what in God's name was this snake doing in the car?
Speaker 4: Like why the car is it because I wish I.
Speaker 6: Wish it was like a one off occasion. But I've
Speaker 6: actually caught snakes in cars many.
Speaker 3: Any good news for us?
Speaker 1: What are they doing in the cars?
Speaker 6: Well, my colleague Tim, who caught the snake, did a
Speaker 6: fantastic job. What happens is sometimes people open a car door,
Speaker 6: leave it open, go inside, and I snay could just
Speaker 6: call up into the car. Sometimes what happens is people
Speaker 6: don't realize they carry a snake into a car inadvertently,
Speaker 6: so they might put it into their shopping on the ground,
Speaker 6: or they might put a backpack on the ground. They
Speaker 6: call them.
Speaker 3: That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So your colleague team helped get this snake out. What
Speaker 2: was that scene like on the side of the monash?
Speaker 6: I think I think that Tim did a fantastic job.
Speaker 6: Given the circumstances and the pressure he was under with
Speaker 6: so many fast cars moving around him, he did a
Speaker 6: fantastic job.
Speaker 1: On you guys, Mark just quickly before we let you go,
Speaker 1: how many times you've been bitten?
Speaker 6: Once and I actually died. But theos brought me back to.
Speaker 1: What sort of snake?
Speaker 6: It was a tiger snake?
Speaker 1: What was the scene?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, Basically, I was catching a snake because I
Speaker 6: always do. One of my pieces of equipment broke in
Speaker 6: the process. It got me on the hell because of
Speaker 6: the equipment broke. It's in eight minutes. I was unconscious
Speaker 6: and I was in front of my family when that
Speaker 6: happened to And this was just in March of this year.
Speaker 3: Did they have an anti venom Yeah.
Speaker 6: I went to hospital. I got two doses of anti
Speaker 6: venom our. Seven days in hospital, in and out of consciousness,
Speaker 6: struggling for life. My organs shut down, my brain shut down.
Speaker 6: I couldn't see, couldn't smell. But eventually I, you know,
Speaker 6: I pulled through and here I am today to talk
Speaker 6: to you about Thank.
Speaker 4: Goodness for that. Honey.
Speaker 1: Help How was it that wasn't the same snake that
Speaker 1: was in the car of the monish?
Speaker 6: Was it? If it was sitting around? But it was
Speaker 6: the same type of snake.
Speaker 1: It just shows you how lucky that lady was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, good on your mind, Mark, very interesting chat.
Speaker 3: Mark's a very interesting man.
Speaker 1: Hey Mark, do you see time this morning?
Speaker 4: Mate?
Speaker 5: We'll catch on mind snake hunter dot com dot Are
Speaker 5: you stay safe over summer?
Speaker 1: Will you?
Speaker 6: Thanks so much?
Speaker 1: Have a good see you mate.
Speaker 4: That goodness?
Speaker 3: Is that top conversation really took turn?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Let's keep the light and bright there, mate.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you see snake over summer, stay calm,
Speaker 2: avoided and coll mark unless.
Speaker 1: You Lauren, and then we're going to film you run
Speaker 1: for the internet.
Speaker 3: I don't run for much, but can you imagine a snake.
Speaker 1: She'd get the knees high. You'd go viral.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put my knees high because that would make
Speaker 2: that would slow me down.
Speaker 1: You would go viral.
Speaker 3: Run straight ahead fast as I can.
Speaker 4: I want to see j seconds men a man.
Speaker 3: He said it doesn't work, So don't make me be
Speaker 3: bitten by a snake and have that.
Speaker 1: We're going to need a steak.
Speaker 3: No Jon Lauren, Jason Lauren.
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