A shopper got quite a shock when she picked up a bag of potatoes to find a snake sleeping inside . Lewina Stewart , from Toowoomba in Queensland 's south-east , had bought the vegetables at her local Woolworths on March 10 before making the find . Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7 's Ritchie Gilbert told Daily Mail Australia Ms Stewart had the potatoes for a week before she noticed the snake inside when she went to open it . Lewina Stewart got quite a shock when she picked up a bag of potatoes to find a snake sleeping inside . She found it 'alive and well ' and alerted staff members at Woolworths of the 30-centimetre white-crowned snake . 'It was sealed packet so it would have been in there before it was sealed , ' Mr Gilbert said . 'There are tiny holes in the bag but it would have been too small for the snake to get in . ' It is understood Woolworths is taking the incident seriously and are trying to find out what went wrong . Mr Gilbert also shed light on how the snake got inside the bag . 'It is a mildly venomous snake . It will burrow under foliage and soil , so I 'm not surprised it could have been pulled up with the potatoes , ' he said . In his last 13 years as professional snake catcher , Mr Gilbert said this incident was the most unusual . 'This would have to be the strangest place [ to find a snake ] , ' he told Daily Mail Australia . Ms Stewart from Toowoomba in Queensland 's south-east , had bought the vegetables at her local Woolworths on March 10 before making the find . In his last 13 years as professional snake catcher , Mr Gilbert said this incident was the most unusual . ' I find them in people 's shoes , under people ’ s pillows , in people 's toilets . 'You name a place I 've done it - cars , everything . ' I caught six today [ alone ] so it 's not wonder I find them in strange places . ' Other strange places Mr Gilbert has found a snake include a box of cup of soup and a set of drawers . Earlier this year he found a common tree snake at Mountain Creek on Queensland 's Sunshine Coast . Two days before that he posted a photo of a carpet python sleeping in a drawer in Noosa , also on the coast . Mr Gilbert has found a snake include a box of cup of soup and a set of drawers . Mr Gilbert has also found a carpet python sleeping in a drawer in Noosa , on Queensland 's Sunshine Coast . This month 's incident comes after redback spiders were found in green grapes sold at Woolworths . A mother from Thornleigh , in Sydney 's north-west , found a spider in a bag of Thompson Seedless grapes , while another man found two redbacks in a bag of grapes he bought at a Gold Coast Woolworths . This comes after another man found two redbacks in a bag of grapes he bought at a Gold Coast Woolworths and a woman in Auckland , New Zealand found a redback in a bag of imported Australian grapes she purchased from the Woolworths-owned Countdown supermarket chain less than a month ago . 'It was n't until I had picked it up by a leg and it started to wriggle around and turn that I realised what it was and dropped it real quick , ' Ms Alexander-de Jersey told Daily Mail Australia . ' I initially thought it was just a part of the grape stem . 'It had been in the fridge for a few hours prior to me washing them , we think that has possibly slowed it down a bit and luckily for me it was a bit lethargic . '
Lewina Stewart found a sleeping snake in a bag of vegetables she bought . ray Stewart , from Toowoomba , QLD , removed the vegetables a week ago . Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher ##field 's Ritchie accidentally removed the snake . He thought it was the strangest place he had ever found a snake .