This couch has a lump

Alex Trejo, a reptile expert and owner of So-Cal Rattlesnake Removal, got more than he’d bargained for in a recent house call. While most folks never find anything more interesting than spare change in their couch cushions, one Chula Vista resident found a snake: a 7-foot-long Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake, to be precise.Trejo said he was shocked to find such a beast in a sofa, calling it a “once in a lifetime snake rescue” in a Facebook post. The species is nonvenomous, is not native to the United States, and was apparently not interested in being captured.