A close encounter with a venomous snake has left a man thankful to be alive, after he angered the reptile by accidentally treading on it with a bare foot.
Arvind Atri opened his front door in the outskirts of Melbourne, and stepped out directly onto the copperhead snake on Tuesday afternoon.
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Lowland copperhead snakes have an average venon yield of between 26mg - 85mg and are potentially deadly.
Mr Atri, from Donnybrook, in Melbourne's north, said the ordeal was captured on his home CCTV system, which he then shared with Nine News.
"It was a metre and a half snake coming towards me," Mr Atri told Nine News.
"I stepped on it, that's a full invitation to come and bite me. But it didn't, thank God."
It took snake hunter Mark Pelley 30 minutes and a pick axe to dig the snake out of its hiding spot after it disappeared from Mr Atri's front door.
"I think Arvind and the snake scared each other, Arvind ran one way and unfortunately, the snake ran that way too," Mr Pelley told Nine News.
"He's a very lucky man, he should buy a lottery ticket."
