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‘He’s a cranky-pants’: Snake catchers in Australia are getting busier

By Natasha Frost
New York Times·
6 mins to read

The phone rings. It’s the local prison. There’s a snake in a cell. Within a few hours, snakes have also been spotted at a school, beneath a piano stored in a private garage and near a lagoon-like swimming pool at a retirement home. Customers want them gone.

Business has never been so good for Stuart McKenzie, who runs a snake-catching service on the Sunshine Coast, a verdant enclave along miles of pristine beach in the vast Australian state of Queensland.

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