I'm sorry but NO snake in Australia will seek out people or actively attack them. All they ever want to do, is get away from humans. Far better than killing them (and risking a bite in the process) is proper education. See one, calmly go the other way. Different when it's on your property or in your house but they will NOT attack you even then. They will try to get away from you. A lot of local councils have a free service where they send the snake catcher out. It's also against the law to kill them!
Please, just leave them alone. Or if they're actually in your way, have them removed and relocated. They're innocent creatures who get a bad reputation simply due to having venom glands.
Hummmm....Snakes will seek out a place to get water, or out of the weather....Hence, why some are found INSIDE a house, especially in the bush. A snake will attack, if they are disturbed...It's their defence mechanism....Example of a defence attack.....Little kid goes to the cupboard to grab a cup out for a drink. Little kid grabs blindly for the cup, but accidently grabs lovely snake. Lovely snake bites poor innocient kid and then retreats into the rear of said cupboard, waiting for the next person to come along and disturb it.
I have personally had the pleasure of turning up at a rellies place and getting a friendly greeting from a Brown.. I was ready to step out of the car, when I happened to noticed him investigating a new hiding place...Luckily I spotted it, before stepping on it.....It was that close to the car....I called out to the old man and he promptly came with shovel in hand and removed the snakes head from it's body.
Yes it may be against the law to kill them, but you have to be caught first.....And the people I know that live around my rellies aren't going to dob any one of their neighbours in for killing a snake, because they all do it, for their own self-defence.
BTW, the area the rellies live in, the council depot is 100 kilometres away....So do the math....1 hour for them to get from the depot to the area, + what ever time it takes for the worker to get to the depot, + the time to contact the necessary worker.....Then the time it would take, for the worker to scour 2 acres of house land, to find the snake and remove it, if it is on the house land... .Mr snake would be loong gone, plotting his next hiding spot
And when you have a little spare time, investigate in QLD, where Biggenden, Gayndah, Bam Bam Springs and Maryborough are....The rellies live inbetween Biggenden, Bam Bam Springs and Gayndah and their nearest council is Maryborough....This may help you understand why these country folk kill a snake, rather than get a professional remove it
