article_snippet: A shopper got quite a shock when A shopper picked up a bag of potatoes to find a snake sleeping inside.
article_snippet: Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7's Ritchie Gilbert Ritchie Gilbert told Daily Mail Australia Ms Lewina Stewart had a bag of potatoes for a week before A shopper noticed a sleeping snake inside when A shopper went to open a sleeping snake.
article_snippet: Daily Mail Australia Ms Stewart got quite a shock when Daily Mail Australia Ms Stewart picked up a bag of potatoes to find a snake sleeping inside .
article_snippet: Daily Mail Australia Ms Stewart found it 'alive and well' and alerted staff members at her local Woolworths of the 30-centimetre white-crowned snake. '
article_snippet: it was sealed packet so it would have been in there before it was sealed,' Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7's Ritchie Gilbert said. '
article_snippet: but it would have been too small for a sleeping snake to get in.'
article_snippet: Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7's Ritchie Gilbert also shed light on how a sleeping snake got inside a bag of potatoes. '
article_snippet: It is a mildly venomous snake.
article_snippet: It will burrow under foliage and soil, so I'm not surprised It could have been pulled up with a bag of potatoes,' Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7's Ritchie Gilbert said.
article_snippet: Daily Mail Australia Ms Stewart from Toowoomba in Queensland's south-east, had bought the vegetables at Woolworths of the 30-centimetre white-crowned snake on March 10 before making the find .
highlights_snippet: Lewina Stewart found a sleeping snake in a bag of potatoes Lewina Stewart bought .
  
highlights_snippet: Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7's Ritchie Gilbert removed a sleeping snake .
  