Helaina Alati, who is trained to catch snakes, happened to come face-to-face with a python while browsing her local Woolworths supermarket in Sydney, Australia, and handled the situation calmly A ...

Helaina Alati was shopping in a supermarket in Sydney when a nonvenomous diamond python stuck its head out from behind a shelf of spices. The snake reportedly came within 8 inches of Alati’s head.

Let’s say you’re grabbing ingredients at the grocery store for a quick weeknight dinner. You’re browsing the spice aisle, when something rattles the bottles from behind. A head slowly pokes out—a ...