This may or may not promote sales of the automatic vacuum cleaner iRobot — it attests to the device’s strength and durability, but at the same time introduces a troubling issue regarding the thing’s judgment in selecting its target. Igor, a resident of the affluent neighborhood of Denia in Haifa, Israel, activated his iRobot and left the house, like you’re supposed to, but when his wife came home she discovered that the self-governing vacuum cleaner had stopped in mid-cleaning. Concerned, she turned the device upside down and spotted a 12-inch-long snake strapped in the storage bin.
The wife, scared out of her mind, called up her husband and the two examined the snake, not certain whether it was dead or alive, and also whether or not it was alone in there. They finally called a snake trapper outfit called, aptly enough, Carmel Trappers (on account of it’s in Haifa), who identified the snake as the Coin-marked snake.
Tomer Avni, who owns the snake trapping company, shared the harrowing tale on his Facebook page and with NRG, and said the Coin-marked snake is not poisonous, but that doesn’t mean a dangerous reptile could not have found its way into the happy-go-lucky automatic vacuum.
File it under a bug in the machine…