14 DAY TRIAL // They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For a young man in Australia, however, it turned out to be the absolute scariest meal of all times when he opened a box of cornflakes looking to eat some and came face to face with a python.
As shown in the photo below, the snake was coiled inside the box. It was very much alive and, when the man picked up the cornflakes, even popped its head out as if to wish him a merry morning. Perhaps it even hoped they would have coffee together.
The one breakfast Jarred Smith should have missed
The 22-year-old man who found the snake in his box of cornflakes explains how, last Tuesday, he woke up around 3 p.m. following a rather harsh night shift. He headed for his kitchen and, being hungry, decided to fix himself a late-day breakfast.
When he picked up his favorite cereal box, he could not help but notice that is was way heavier than it was supposed to be. He took a look inside and came face to face with a diamond python.
Like anybody in their right mind, the man dropped the cornflakes and made a run for it. When he regained control of himself, he contacted the New South Wales Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service and asked that they send somebody to remove the snake from his food.
“I peaked in the box, saw its head pop out and that’s when I dropped my food on the counter and bolted for the door,” 22-year-old Jarred Smith told the press in an interview, as cited by Mirror.
The man was never in any real danger
Admittedly, the diamond python that wildlife experts removed from the man's morning cereal measured about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in length and was therefore quite scary to look at. Still, specialists say that Jarred Smith was never in any real danger.
This is because diamond pythons are not venomous snakes. Instead, they kill their prey by wrapping themselves around it and squeezing it until its body gives out. Although quite big, the python Jarred Smith found in his box of cornflakes was by no means strong enough to kill him.
