‘Look at this! He’s a big boy!’: B.C. man rescues 6-foot snake from roof of shed

“People always tend to exaggerate. So when the guy said ‘Oh, it’s a big snake,’ I’m thinking ‘Oh yeah, sure.’ And sure enough, it’s big.”

A sunny day in B.C.’s Interior turned out to be quite surprising for two construction workers.

While demolishing a shed in Kelowna, the two found a six-foot snake hiding the rafters.

The two construction workers didn’t want to be interviewed, but a nearby man who overheard their surprised shouts, and wound up rescuing the snake, spoke to Global News.

“I’m visiting my parents’ house next door, and I heard the two workers on the roof of the garage they’re dismantling,” said Kelly Blair.

‘I hear ‘Woah! What’s that?! What do we have here?’ I’m thinking a big hornet nest or something. So I holler over, ‘What did you find?’ And they say, ‘It’s a snake, and it’s a big one.’”

Blair says he loves all animals, so he popped over to help.

He clambered up the ladder to the shed’s dismantled roof, walked across the beams and did what the two construction workers weren’t willing to do: Reach down and grab the olive green and black-patterned snake.

“It slowly started to move, and as it made its way, I picked it up,” said Blair, noting the snake made its way along a truss towards him.