{"id":154326,"date":"2025-05-27T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/couple-in-sha-tin-home-shocked-to-find-1-metre-king-cobra-on-computer-desk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:08:38","slug":"couple-in-sha-tin-home-shocked-to-find-1-metre-king-cobra-on-computer-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/couple-in-sha-tin-home-shocked-to-find-1-metre-king-cobra-on-computer-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple in Sha Tin home shocked to find 1-metre king cobra on computer desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA couple in their village home in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, experienced a scare on Monday when they spotted a highly venomous king cobra snake on their computer desk.<br \/>\nA snake catcher was called to safely collect the reptile, which measured about one metre (3.3 feet) in length. According to a police spokesman, the snake will be released back into the wild.<br \/>\nThe force said it received a report at 1.41am that the snake had entered the house on To Shek Street.<br \/>\nThe male resident of the flat shared what he&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/yp\/discover\/news\/hong-kong\/article\/3311911\/couple-sha-tin-home-shocked-find-1-metre-king-cobra-computer-desk?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Couple in Sha Tin home shocked to find 1-metre king cobra on computer desk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A couple in their village home in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, experienced a scare on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-E98","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154402,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/couple-in-hong-kong-village-home-shocked-to-find-king-cobra-on-computer-desk\/","url_meta":{"origin":154326,"position":0},"title":"Couple in Hong Kong village home shocked to find king cobra on computer desk","date":"May 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A couple received a scare at their village home in Hong Kong\u2019s Sha Tin on Monday when a highly venomous king cobra snake was spotted on their computer desk. 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