An elderly Australian man was given a huge fright when he found his ceiling had collapsed under the weight of large carpet snakes on Monday.
Retiree David Tait returned to his home in North Brisbane to find the wreckage.
"I'd been away for the night and came home and found most of the dining room ceiling down on the dining room table," he said.
"I looked around to see what had caused it and found two very large snakes inside the house."
Snake catcher Steven Brown told the Today Show he turned up to the house thinking they must have come in through an open door and was surprised to find they had been in the roof.
He said it's currently breeding season for snakes and believed two males were fighting over a female when it collapsed.
The two male snakes were located about a kilometre away by Brown, but they are still yet to find the female.
Brown said the males were "some of the biggest and fattest" he'd ever seen, measuring 2.8m and 2.5m, The Guardian reported. They reportedly weighed 22kg between them.
Tait said he had seen snakes around the outside of his house previously, but never of that size.
