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.

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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