Large Snake Stuns Mother After Falling Out of Toy Box During 3-Year-Old Child’s Birthday Party

A mother in Liverpool, England, got a shocking surprise when a snake tumbled out of her daughter’s birthday gift.

On Sunday, Aug. 10, Jennifer Baker, 30, was celebrating her daughter’s third birthday. She had placed the box from her daughter’s new toy on top of the oven, according to The Sunday Times.

As the party wound down, Baker went to move the empty toy box to the recycling bin—but it felt heavier than expected. That’s when a bright orange snake “just fell out of” the box, she told the BBC.

At first, Baker thought her two sons were playing a prank and assumed it was a toy—not a live snake in her kitchen.

“I said, ‘Whose is this?’ because I was thinking, ‘They haven’t got a toy snake that looks like that,'” she explained. But everything changed once she saw it move.

“It’s only when its tongue started moving I realised it was a real snake, and I started screaming, ‘It’s real!'” Baker continued. “I just was in shock. Walking into the kitchen to find a snake on my oven. I was thinking, how has a snake got in my kitchen?”

Baker’s mother heard the commotion and helped her get the snake out of the house. “So then me and my mum are trying to get this snake into an empty box, and it’s trying to wrap itself around my arm. It was just mad,” she said.

Stock notes that the corn snake makes an excellent pet, particularly for beginner snake owners.

Eventually, the mother-daughter duo managed to contain the snake and tracked down its owner—a nearby neighbor. Luckily, the intruder was a non-venomous corn snake, a popular pet that had somehow escaped.