An Australian woman was shocked to find a three-metre carpet python sleeping in her window flower box after opening her curtains.

Susan O'Hara, from Tumbi Umbi in the semi-rural suburb of New South Wales' Central Coast, found the 'bloody huge intruder' admiring a vase of flowers.

No one knows where it came from or how long this 10-foot-long reticulated python has been slithering around a Phoenix neighborhood near 24th Street and McDowell.

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