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By WADE SELLERS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
18 December 2018
'Burn everything and evacuate immediately': Man who found a huge carpet python coiled up next to a huntsman spider in his home turns to the internet for help
A terrified homeowner has turned to the internet for help after finding two of Australia's most feared creatures inside his home at the same time.
The Brisbane resident posted a photo titled 'The house is lost, evacuate immediately and burn it to the ground', to Reddit, provoking some strong reactions.
A large hairy spider can be seen sitting on the wall, just centimetres above an enormous snake that has slithered into a tiled corner.
Uploaded to reddit ,the picture, titled 'The house is lost, evacuate immediately and burn it to the ground' shows two of Australia's most feared animals sitting close together as if they're plotting something
Reddit users provided a variety of advice for how the man could find his way out of the situation.
'Let them fight,' one user wrote.
'It's their house now,' another said.
Another user only noticed the spider at first, before noticing the enormous carnivorous reptile sitting below it.
'I only noticed the spider and thought it was a bit of an over reaction. F***** burn the house to the ground,' they wrote.
'Call up a swat team,' another Redditor wrote.
Despite the panicked reactions from Reddit, the creatures in picture - a Huntsman spider and a carpet python - are relatively harmless.
Python sightings have increased in Brisbane in recent weeks, sparked by warmer weather and the reptiles entering mating season.
In November, a brown python was spotted slithering across a bike track and two adult carpet pythons were filmed viciously fighting in a battle to prove dominance in the Queensland bush.
While startling, carpet pythons are the most commonly caught non-venomous snakes in Queensland.
Its bite can causes only substantial lacerations or punctures, and the snakes often reside in leafy suburbs.
The Huntsman spider may look alarming as it scuttles quickly across walls or furniture but are unlikely to bite humans unless provoked.
