The terminal was flown via helicopter to the Mackay police station, where officers "were re-united with an old friend" -- a snake suspected to be the same one previously removed from a computer casing.
Senior Constable Steve Smith was summoned to take some pictures of the stowaway.
"I was called, 'Come and have a look at this Steve, you might like to take a photo of the snake and its computer home. It's a nerd snake,'" Smith said.
Smith said he was taking a few shots of the computer when he noticed something -- a second snake crawling out from an opening.
"The RES officer who had carried the computer terminal all the way from the hillside, into the chopper, into the car and back into the office turned white and sat down," Smith said.
He said a thorough search of the computer terminal was conducted to make sure there were no more serpents inside.
The two snakes, believed to be venomous red-bellied black snakes, were released into the wilderness of Bucasia.
"Forget snakes on a plane -- in a chopper, no one can hear you scream!" Smith joked.
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