Python found hiding in cafe coffee machine
A café owner at Crescent Head on the New South Wales Mid North Coast got a nasty shock when he found a two metre long snake curled up inside his coffee machine.
"One hundred per cent we've been making coffee with a python in the machine," said Bush Kitchen owner Kim Fayfie. "He didn't want to leave it.”
The new scaly guest was initially thought to be a pipe when Fayfie’s wife was cleaning the machine.
"She thought it might have been blocked or something, and she's looked again and thought, 'Hang on, we've got a bit of an issue here',” Fayfie said.
"We haven't got a mice problem at the moment, so he could have been there for a while."
The snake, a non-venomous diamond python also known as a carpet python, was coaxed out and slithered off into nearby bushland.
"We've actually had a couple of brown snakes sneaking into the toilet, we are in the middle of it all here, that's why it's so unique and beautiful," Fayfie said.
Sheridan Randall, 22nd January 2019
