A young woman who thought she was doing her grocery alone made a surprising discovery after finding a mildly venomous snake curled up in her shopping trolley. The unnamed woman, from the Sunshine Coast, found an empty trolley in an underground car park at the supermarket giant Coles in Caboolture, north of Brisbane on Wednesday. She pushed the trolley up the escalator to do her shopping before realising the slithering brown tree snake had curled itself in the corner and was hitching a ride to the store. Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 Richie Gilbert was called to remove the snake and release it back into the bushland just kilometres away. A young woman made a surprising discovering after finding a mildly venomous snake in her shopping trolley . Snake catcher Richie Gilbert came to the rescue and safely removed the sleepy little snake outside the store . 'The woman found it through a pile of trolleys downstairs and pushed it up the escalator before realising the sleepy little snake was there the whole time,' Mr Gilbert told Daily Mail Australia. 'She quickly alerted staff and they had a security guide standing 10 metres around it to keep an eye on it because they didn't know what type of snake it was. 'When I arrived, it wasn't causing any trouble, especially when I untangled it from the trolley.' As the weather begins to drop to cooler temperatures in Queensland, Mr Gilbert said brown tree snakes are nocturnal so they try to hide in warm areas. 'They usually try to find somewhere warm to sleep,' he said. 'It probably wanted to stay away from trouble and thought the trolleys were a good place to climb inside and hang there - it had no idea it was a trolley. Mr Gilbert later joked on his Facebook page: 'I told the snake to next time try coming through the delivery door out back. Haha.' The brown treet snake was safely removed from the trolley after it had a little adventure up an escalator . While brown tree snakes are known to kill their prey by chewing to inject venom, Mr Gilbert said they are not regarded as dangerous to humans. 'They're mildly venomous and I still don't advise anyone to pick it up,' Mr Gilbert said. 'Brown tree snakes are not a threat and won't react in a threatening way but if you do get bitten, a pressure bandage should be applied and seek medical attention - as a precaution as with all suspected snake bites. 'We had one situation where a dad thought it was a good idea to catch a snake inside his house and give it to his seven-year-old daughter to play with the next day because he thought it was harmless. 'Even though she was bitten and didn't show any signs of venom - I still advised him to take her to the hospital as a precautionary measure. 'But please, if you're not 100 percent certain about a snake - don't do what this person did.' Mr Richie said while they release venom on its prey, the snakes are not regarded as dangerous to humans . Mr Gilbert said brown tree snakes are harmless and nocturnal, so they try to hide in warm areas . When it doubt about spotting a snake, Mr Gilbert suggests the best thing to do in a situation is move away slowly and try to take a photograph from a safe distance. 'Send it to us and we can identify it for you and if it’s venomous or not - or whether we need to come out to catch it ourselves and relocate them,' he told Daily Mail Australia. 'If the snake is found inside a home in one of the rooms, it's best to close the room and pop a towel underneath the door and then call us - nothing worse than having someone run out and lock their entire house and then tell us that "the snake is somewhere inside the house". 'If you're in the garden and you step on a snake and it's in between your legs, just stand still because it'll eventually slither away. ‘Be smart about it because 90 percent of the time, people who are bitten are often trying to kill it or scare it away. ‘All snakes want to do is get away but if it doesn’t feel it can escape, it’ll strike – so be sensible when you spot them.’
A woman discovered a tree snake curled up inside a shopping trolley . Snake catcher Richie Gilbert was called to the rescue at Coles Caboolture . When he arrived, he managed to untangle the snake from the trolley . He safely released it back into the bushland just kilometres away . Mr Gilbert also gave Daily Mail readers his top tips to avoid getting bitten .