reminds me of my own experience with a king cobra right behind a basket in my then office! after i discovered it i ran to the Thai neighbour's house and he helped me with long bamboo sticks to swipe it first out of the house into the other neighbour's garden, where it slithered away! never saw it again, but since then i kept the windows closed when away... before: everything open...! (the other neighbour wasn't home 😉)