A 10-foot python surprised a woman in a supermarket spice aisle. She was a trained snake catcher.

Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came face-to-face with a huge snake. The head of the 10-foot-long non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.

"I was in the spice aisle just looking for something to put on my chicken that night so I didn't initially see it because it was curled up way back behind the little jars of spices," Alati said Wednesday. "I kind of turned to my right and it poked its head out." Alati — who, coincidently is a trained snake catcher — said the snake's head came to within 8 inches of her own.