This isn't the first snake to crash someone's bedtime routine. Just last week, a man in Stellenbosch, South Africa, returned home to find a live cape cobra curled underneath a pillow in his bed.

Even an experienced snake catcher can be surprised, as was the case when Daniel Busstra found an uninvited bedtime guest, in the shape of a tree snake curled up inside a pillowcase.Busstra told ...

I was taking our dog (Bella) out for a bedtime wee when, as we descended the stairs, I saw a massive and deadly brown snake at the base. Luckily, the dog turned sharply and missed the reptile.