Neville Linton, 63, was conducting a routine grocery run on a routine day. But in a package of broccoli, he unearthed a “frightening” discovery.

He had gone to an Aldi in the West Midlands of England to buy food as usual. But a few days later, when preparing the food, he unzipped the bag and saw a snake curled up within the vegetable.
It is an ophidiophobic’s worst nightmare. Unfortunately, Linton was terrified of snakes. A Sneaky Snake Rattles Grocery Shopper

Relatives ran in and grabbed the snake away from Linton, who works in industrial cleaning, saving him.

A grandfather admitted, “It was pretty frightening. I’m not good with snakes. It’s lucky I didn’t just leave the broccoli out in the kitchen, or it would have been loose in the house. That would have been a huge risk for us because we have two vulnerable people living here.” “I thought she was joking at first,” said Linton about Tenkanemin’s identifying the snake, “but I backed off when I saw it start moving. The guy in the shop was pretty frightened, too.”

Linton believes that although he had gotten some compensation, more should have been given because the snake threatened his family’s weaker members, particularly his disabled son and his mother-in-law.

“It’s just not good enough — the implications for us if it had [gotten] out in the house are huge,” he said. “Plus, I’m phobic of snakes, so there’s the emotional impact of that, too.”