That's some sssssouvenir: British holidaymaker 飛行機で行くs 9,300 miles from Australia to Scotland only to find a 密航者 PYTHON hidden in one of her shoes

  • A Scottish tourist 設立する a snake in her スーツケース at home after a trip to Australia
  • Moira Boxall saw the spotted python shedding its 肌 in one of her canvas shoes
  • She 最初 thought the snake was 偽の and 工場／植物d by family members as a joke?

By Paula Ahillon For Daily Mail Australia and James Gant For Mailonline

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A Scottish tourist was shocked to find she had carried a snake in her スーツケース more than 9,000 miles after returning home from a summer trip to Australia.

Moira Boxall 設立する the python shedding its 肌 inside one of her shoes on Friday, に引き続いて a 9,300-mile trip to family members in Mackay, Central Queensland.

She thought her son-in-法律 Paul Airlie and his wife Sarah had 工場／植物d a 偽の snake in her shoe as a joke until she touched the?spotted python and it moved.

'She 絶対 lost it ? it was her first real 遭遇（する） with a snake,' Mr Airlie told the ABC.??

Moira Boxall found a spotted python shedding its skin inside one of her shoes (pictured), following a visit to family members in Queensland?

Moira Boxall 設立する a spotted python shedding its 肌 inside one of her shoes (picture d), に引き続いて a visit to family members in Queensland?

Ms Boxall stayed with her son-in-law Paul Airlie (right) with his wife Sarah (left) during her summer holiday in Mackay

Ms Boxall stayed with her son-in-法律 Paul Airlie (権利) with his wife Sarah (left) during her summer holiday in Mackay

Ms Boxall had woken Mr Airlie at about 3am because she thought she had seen a snake in her room a few days before she left.

Mr Airlie said his wife Sarah had helped Ms Boxall pack.

'明白に she just 選ぶd the shoe up and stuck it in the 捕らえる、獲得する and then it was there,' he said.

'She was not at all 推定する／予想するing to find the snake when she was unpacking a 捕らえる、獲得する when she got 支援する to Scotland.

'We searched the room and there was no snake. However, it turns out there was a snake, as it had gone and hidden in her shoe.'

Mr Airlie had 負かす／撃墜する played the fact that snakes were ありふれた in Queensland during Ms Boxall's stay.

She called Mr Airlie in Australia who phoned the Scottish RSPCA to 報告（する）／憶測 a 潜在的に venomous snake had travelled all the way to Scotland.?

Ms Boxall had put the shoe in the garden with a box over it.?

The python had shed its skin during the flight, in a process called Ecdysis, to get rid of parasites that may have become attached to it

The python had shed its 肌 during the flight, in a 過程 called Ecdysis, to get rid of parasites that may have become 大（公）使館員d to it

Ms Boxall initially thought Mr Airlie and Sarah had planted a fake python in her shoe as a joke until she touched it and it moved. The snake was non-venomous and is being kept in quarantine

Ms Boxall 最初 thought Mr Airlie and Sarah had 工場／植物d a 偽の python in her shoe as a joke until she touched it and it moved. The snake was 非，不，無-venomous and is 存在 kept in 検疫

Fortunately, the spotted python - a ありふれた pet - was 非，不，無-venomous - although they can give 肌 穴をあけるs that can 原因（となる） 厳しい lacerations.

The python had shed its 肌 during the flight, in a 過程 called Ecdysis, to get rid of parasites that may have become 大（公）使館員d to it.

Mr Airlie said he was 自信のない if his mother-in-法律 would return to Australia anytime soon after the 脅すing experience.

The python is in 検疫 and could be housed in a Glasgow Zoo.

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