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Stowaway snake apparently found in Sydney Aldi lettuce bag is returned home to Queensland
A baby pale-headed snake thought to have hitched a ride from Queensland to Sydney in a bag of lettuce has returned home after a 2,000-kilometre round trip.
Key points:
- The snake was apparently found in a bag of supermarket lettuce in Sydney
- A wildlife team drove the reptile home to Queensland
- Aldi is still investigating the report of the snake in its product
Sydney woman Lesley Kuhn claims her son found the venomous reptile wrapped around lettuce leaves, inside a packet she bought from a local Aldi supermarket.
A team from the New South Wales Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) drove the reptile nearly 1,000km in a “relay” to Toowoomba, to release it in the region where the lettuce was picked.
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