What I can't believe is why this is even a fucking news story!
This is crap not news.
"Oh, let's call the news and tell them we found a snake (that's not poisonous) under the dishwasher! We have have ickle pwecious chyylldrens."
Growing up, I had direct encounters with snakes more than once. (I lived in Florida.)
I was elementary school aged and I woke up one Saturday morning and found a snake mere inches from my face. My bed was in a corner of the room and the snake was stretched out ON THE WALL in the corner where the two walls met, with its head pointed down towards me. I very calmly and slowly edged away and woke up my parents. My dad said "Go back to bed, knock it off."
"But, daddy, there's a snake in my room, over my bed."
He didn't believe me at first. He finally got up and went into my room.
"Holy shit!"
He went to get my brother's BB gun and started shooting at it. The snake flew off the wall, twisting and slithering. It was kind of funny.