[(Title)] 6-foot snake slithers down Texas man's chimney, 'clunks' into fireplace.

A black rat snake rests in a tree.  (iStock)

一条黑老鼠蛇躺在树上。

A Texas man investigating a loud "clunk" coming from his chimney on Sunday was horrified to find a 6-foot snake staring back at him from behind the glass.

周日，一个得克萨斯州男子听到烟囱里传来一声响亮的“咕咚”，随后，他惊恐地发现一条6英尺的蛇从玻璃门后面朝他望着。

Gary Antley, of Lufkin, found the serpent around 2:38 a.m. — just as he was about to head to bed. Antley grabbed a pair of tongs to remove the snake, identified as a non-venomous rat snake, from his home.

卢夫肯的加里·安特利（Gary Antley）在凌晨2点38分左右发现了这条蛇 - 但是他正准备上床睡觉。 安特利抓起一把钳子从他的家中取出被认定为无毒蛇的老鼠蛇。

"I go from mild mannered just passing through, I pass up the panic stage and I go clean to, 'Oh God what do I do!?'" Antley described his thought process to KETK-TV.

“我从恍惚中回过神来，感到恐慌，我必须把它处理干净，'天啊，我该怎么办！？'”安特利向KETK新闻台描述了他的思考过程。

Antley filmed his daring snake removal mission, pointing a camera toward the fireplace where he cautiously opened the sliding glass doors. Keeping a safe distance, Antley used the tongs to grab the snake's neck and pull the reptile out of the soot.

安特利拍摄了他大胆的取蛇任务，将一个照相机指向壁炉，小心翼翼地打开滑动玻璃门，保持安全距离，安特利用钳把蛇的脖子拉出烟囱。

"I just gritted my teeth and I went for it, went in there and grabbed him by the neck," Antley told the news station. "Well nothing too bad happened and then he got tangled up in the fire curtain."

“我只是咬紧牙关，然后我去了，去了那里，抓住他的脖子，”安特利告诉新闻台。 “好了没有什么太糟糕的事情发生，然后它的身体被防火卷帘缠住了。”

A daring Antley then used his hand to free the snake's body from the curtain and successfully pull it out of the fireplace. Afterward, he dropped it into a bucket and closed the lid.

胆大的安特利用手把蛇的身体从防火卷帘解救出来，然后成功地把它从壁炉里拉出来。然后，他把它扔到一个桶里，盖上盖子。

"I may not sleep for a week now," Antley admitted on Facebook, sharing a minute-long video of his snake encounter. Thousands of people watched the video and dozens left comments for the Texas man.

“我现在可能一个星期都不会睡了，”安特利在Facebook上表示，并分享了一段长达一分钟的捕蛇视频。 成千上万的人观看了视频，还有数十人留下了评论。

"Aw, such a cute little tiny snake! I live in Florida. We have pythons! Those get BIG! Want to come and visit?" one Floridian asked.

一名佛罗里达州的网友留言问道：“哇，多可爱的小蛇！我住在佛罗里达。我们有蟒蛇！很大只！想来拜访下吗？”

"Umm, I'm Never coming over again. Geez!" a friend joked.

“嗯，我永远不要再来。吉兹！”一位朋友开玩笑地说。

"Aw, it's just a rat snake. He won't hurt anybody," another added.

“啊，那只是只老鼠蛇。他不会伤害任何人，”另一个补充说。

"Tell that to the family of chimney sweeps in his belly. He did me a service and for that I am grateful. I will relocate him here in a bit," Antley replied.

安特利答道：“告诉他家里的清洁工对烟囱做了深度清洁，他为我做了服务，对此我感激不尽。我要把他搬到这里。”

Antley safely released the snake back into the wilderness a few miles away from his home.

安特利把蛇安全地释放回离他家几英里的荒野里。

The Texas rat snake is a non-venomous reptile that's commonly found in North Texas. The largest rat snake ever recorded in the area was 7.2 feet long, according to the Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center.

得克萨斯州大鼠蛇是一种无毒的爬行动物，在北得克萨斯州常见，据安柏和爬行动物多样性研究中心，该地区记录到的最大蛇长7.2英尺。

"Texas rat snakes are excellent climbers and there have been occasional reports of Texas rat snakes climbing the sides of brick walls on buildings," the center explains on its website.

“得克萨斯州的老鼠蛇是优秀的攀爬者，偶尔有报道称得克萨斯州的老鼠蛇爬到建筑物上的砖墙边上，”该中心在其网站上解释说。

"This can be the result of the snake detecting the presence of rodents, which often seek shelter in attics."

"这可能是蛇发现啮齿动物的结果，而啮齿动物常常在阁楼中寻求栖身之所。