Coastal Taipan: Queensland man, 77, tried to kill a coastal taipan with a shovel before it bit him between the toes in his living room; he suffered cardiac arrest and died six days later: What should you do if you encounter a venomous snake inside your home?
It began as an ordinary evening at home and became one of Australia’s most talked-about snakebite cases. According to ABC News in December 2016, a 77-year-old man named David Pitt found a coastal taipan in his living room at Yorkeys Knob, north of Cairns, and tried to deal with it himself. He had been trying…