By CASEY NEILL
A DANDENONG funeral director was in the right place when he spotted a snake slithering past his foot.
“I was in the toilet doing my business,” Adam Le Boeuf said.
“It scared the crap out of me.”
The Classic Funeral Services manager’s close encounter with a baby copperhead snake happened about 2pm on Thursday 17 March.
“I looked down and saw something moving by my foot,” he said.
“It was probably seven inches long.
“I ran out of the toilet.”
Mr Le Boeuf grabbed his phone and raced back to the loo to take a photo.
“I thought no one would believe me if I lost it,” he said.
“But I came back and it was gone.”
He went through the powder room bin “carefully, with a big stick” with no luck.
Then Mr Le Boeuf spotted the reptile in a crack in the concrete block wall.
He managed to manoeuvre it into a plastic CD holder.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said.
“I pinned it down and put the clear container over it and slid a piece of cardboard under it like you’d catch a spider.
“We’re in this industrial area – that was the last thing we expected.”
He called a snake catcher and was told that copperheads were the seventh most dangerous snake in Australia.
“We took it to a wildlife carer,” he said.
