There was more than a lit­tle shock —and no time for bib­li­cal ref­er­ences —when a snake was re­cent­ly dis­cov­ered in the man­age­ment of­fice at Par­adise Ceme­tery, San Fer­nan­do.

Now work­ers are hop­ing plans to re­build their of­fice will be com­plet­ed be­fore more crit­ters take ad­van­tage of the de­fi­cien­cies in the build­ing to “come vis­it­ing.”

On No­vem­ber, 12 work­ers found the snake curled up in a cup­board that sup­ports their drink­ing wa­ter dis­penser.

One work­er, who did not wish to be named, said the snake was “re­lo­cat­ed per­ma­nent­ly.”

How­ev­er, the way in which it had gained en­try to the of­fice and found a com­fort zone has caused work­ers to wor­ry that more and larg­er of his rel­a­tives may be around.

They said in the past, they have dis­cov­ered large black toads in the of­fice al­so.

They not­ed in­fra­struc­tur­al is­sues in the of­fice in­clud­ing a large hole in the ceil­ing which caus­es wa­ter to leak on­to work­ers when­ev­er it rains.

Work­ers said there are plans to re­build the of­fice. While hop­ing that will be com­plet­ed soon, they said they’re slight­ly ap­pre­hen­sive about the re­lo­ca­tion site near the Roodal ceme­tery.

They not­ed its prox­im­i­ty to the high­way and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

San Fer­nan­do Cor­po­ra­tion of­fi­cials said when the Par­adise of­fice is re­done, “It wouldn’t have any snakes in that part of Par­adise—not even if it has peo­ple named Adam or Eve they want to vis­it.”