Animal rescuers searching for a hissing cobra ended up finding an electric toothbrush.
Toothbrushes
The welfare group ACRES were called out to a home in Singapore after a woman thought she had heard a snake hissing in her bedroom.
Xi Yan sent the rescue team a recording of the noise she had heard and the experts declared that it sounded like a venomous cobra.
They searched Xi Yan's home for an hour before it was discovered that the sound was coming from a malfunctioning Oral B electric toothbrush.
She recalled how the toothbrush was damaged because she had got water in the battery compartment.
Xi Yan told Coconuts Magazine: "The problem started because water got into my electrical toothbrush and affected the mechanism. I should really buy a new one, I don’t want to go through this again.
"The ACRES staff were very helpful and responsible. It was a hot day, and they spent almost an hour trying to resolve the issue."