One passenger, Robert Weber, a website designer in Cairns, told the Sydney Morning Herald: ''The people at the front were oblivious to what was going on but the passengers at the back were all totally focused on the snake and how it might have got on to the aircraft.

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All the pieces of avocado-glazed pottery come from the nearby Snake Kiln, whose traditions date back to the Ming dynasty.

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Mel built a snake house and the couple never looked back.

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But for a Texas homeowner, an impromptu anti-snake solution -- set that repulsive reptile on fire -- came back to bite.

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The RSPCA was called back to Baxenden and District Golf Club, near Accrington, on Wednesday, a day after the first snake was caught in the long grass.

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