Australia is home to a seemingly never-ending array of dangerous animals and for Kerry Jenkins and her partner, one of those animals got a little too close for comfort during a drive along the Pacific Highway.
A video shared to TikTok shows that as the couple were driving home from a beach vacation with their family, a green tree snake popped out from under the bonnet. In their panic, Jenkins can be heard repeatedly telling her partner to pull over so the snake could slither away but given that there were on a two-lane highway, there were limited safe places to pull over.
As the video progresses, the force of the wind begins to fling the snake from side to side across the bonnet, making the situation even scarier. Despite Jenkins’ insistence that her partner would pull over, he wasn’t having any of it.
Warning: The video contains foul language (NSFW)
“I’m not f**king stop mate,” he can be heard saying with a thick Australian accent. “What, you’re gonna f**king flick it off? I ain’t. Alright, I can’t do anything, there’s nowhere I can pull over yet.”
After approximately 90 seconds, the couple reached their highway exit and began to slow down and started to pull over in the hope that the snake would slither off. However, it simply disappeared from view and the couple continued driving.
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Jenkins followed up the video with a second one where the snake was found clinging to the hood but quickly escaped into the underside of the car. The couple’s son later tried to catch the snake but it escaped once again into the engine bay.
On Monday evening, Jenkins’ partner opened the bonnet to their SUV and found the snake sitting on the engine.
“My partner just popped the bonnet and he was sitting on top of the motor,” she said in the TikTok video. “My partner dropped the bonnet afraid (massive snake phobia). I opened it back up and we could see his tail sliding into a crevice.”
