A RED-bellied black snake wasn’t on the shopping list when Sandra Flynn went to buy groceries on Sunday, but she somehow ended up with one.
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Ms Flynn returned to her car parked at Armidale Central that afternoon to find a brown piece of paper stuck to her back windshield.
She said she almost jumped out of her skin when she read the message, warning her that a red-bellied black snake weaved its way under her car around the front right wheel.
“I was actually terrified,” Ms Flynn said.
“You don’t expect that.”
She enlisted the help of a “good Samaritan” who ran to grab a tyre spanner from his car to manoeuvre the unwelcome passenger away from the vehicle. “I opened the bonnet and we couldn’t see anything,” Ms Flynn said. “We found it on the wheel of the left-hand side, it was wrapped around the wheel.
“This brave man picked it up and took it across to the creek to let it out.”
Ms Flynn said she was “in a state of shock” on Sunday and would properly like to thank the mystery man who removed the snake.
“I did say thank you, but I didn’t get his name or address,” she said.
She also wants to contact the person who left the note on her car.
“I wouldn’t have known it was there,” she said.
Ms Flynn’s husband Bill said it was nice to see people looking out for one another.
“The two people that helped her out I’d like to praise enormously,” he said.
“Usually notes on the car are about someone running into you.”
If you are the man who relocated the snake or the mystery person who wrote the warning note, phone Dannielle Maguire on 6776 0516.