Stalker snake bites man on nose

An Australian man has told of how a snake is stalking his Territory home after it slid into his bed and bit him on the face while he slept.

Jeff Hosie got the fright of his life when he woke to a snake latched on to his nose.

And he says the snake returned the next night - only this time it crawled into bed with his 16-year-old son Nathan and bit him on the back of his leg.



"He's a rogue snake - he's got us twice now," he said. He's like a stalker snake. I can't believe it is just crawling into our beds. They normally stay away."

But the Hosie's are prepared if the stalking snake returns. "I don't know if it's going to come back but we'll be ready - we've got shovels and brooms out beside our beds just in case," he said.

"He's a real bugger and if we see him again we are going to pin him and drill him."