Venomous snake comes slithering out of fridge ice dispenser, Australia video shows

A cat is credited with alerting an Australian woman to a venomous snake that was hiding in the last place you’d expect — the refrigerator’s ice dispenser.

The large snake was seen squirting from the dispenser like soft-serve ice cream in the Jan. 10 video from the Adelaide Hills area of South Australia.

The reptile was identified as a venomous red-bellied black snake by Nine Network in Australia. The species grows to 6.5 feet in length and typically tries to avoid humans but will latch on “and chew savagely” when cornered, experts say.

A snake wrangler with Adelaide Hills Snake Catcher arrived to find the snake’s middle section stuck in the ice dispenser, leaving its tail and head dangling, video shows.

“I don’t believe that,” he is heard saying, while trying to force the snake out from the other side of the door.

He resorted to grabbing the snake with one bare hand and tugging it out of the dispenser, the video shows. It was then quickly placed into a cloth bag.

“You just never know where (you’re) ... going to catch them,” the company wrote on Facebook.

The identity of the woman was not revealed, but an acquaintance shared a photo of the tangled snake Jan. 11 on X, formerly Twitter.

“This was in my friend’s fridge yesterday,” Gillian Fennell wrote in the post. “No idea how it ended up in the ice dispenser. Her cat was hissing at the fridge in the dark so she turned the light on & saw this.”

Adelaide Hills Snake Catcher said the reptile may have been looking for tasty frogs when it got stuck.

Commenters on social media called the incident the “stuff of nightmares” and “wildly terrifying.”

It’s likely the snake got into the dispenser the same way it was coming out, but one person suggested it might have been hiding among groceries stored earlier in the fridge.

“When your fridge starts dispensing snakes, it’s time to get out of Dodge!” one commenter wrote.

“My fridge doesn’t have a snake dispenser. I’m mildly envious,” another said.

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