A waitress is our new hero after she was filmed dragging a huge lizard away from customers by the tail.

You expect to have to polish cutlery, carry three plates at once and deal with people sabotaging food for a free meal as part of the job description.

But at most restaurants, you won’t have to wrestle with a 180cm goanna lizard.

Samia Lily, 25, was ready when her destiny called.

She thought the animal was a dog at first when it appeared at the Mimosa Winery in New South Wales, Australia and started to approach a group of people dining.

As customers screamed in terror, Samia grabbed a chair to create a barricade between the lizard and their table.

Then she grabbed its tail with her bare hands and dragged it out of the restaurant, past a woman who had jumped onto her chair to get out of its path.

 ‘I looked at it and thought it was a dog at first,’ Samia told Bega District News.

‘Everyone was screaming, so I started screaming too.’

She said she had been unsure what to do and whether she should grab it, telling herself: ‘I know it’s bad, but it was getting close to customers’.

Afterward she said she wasn’t scared but felt ‘excited’.

A Facebook post shared by the restaurant, nicknaming Samia ‘goanna girl’ has been viewed more than 300,000 times.

It shows how the reptile jerked its head back to try to get out of her grip, as she manoeuvres past eight tables.

French citizen Samia has been in Australia since November last year.

Commenting on the Facebook video, one man wrote: ‘It would be so perfectly appropriate to issue an honorary citizenship here.

‘Be proud Samia, you are now officially a legend.’

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Jen Mills

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