It’s not something you’d want dropping down from above.

Two large pythons – coiled tightly in a reptilian love lock – were pulled down from the ceiling of a house in Bentong town, in western Pahang, Malaysia, on Sunday.

It took a team of seven emergency responders to pull the two reptiles – entwined tightly in a mating ball – down from the ceiling and separate them.

According to a report from Sinar Harian, Madam Som Mohamad Saleh, 57, heard loud noises coming from the ceiling of her house at around 4am on Saturday.

She suspected monkeys were probably running and hopping on her roof. Then on Sunday morning, her 26-year-old daughter, Ms Norsharihara Zakaria, noticed a crack on the ceiling of her bedroom.

The gap grew wider till it exposed the tail of a reticulated python. That was when Madam Som called the local emergency response team for help.

Videos posted on TikTok account baju_skoda showed responders trying to pull a snake using a long pair of tongs.

It caused the ceiling to collapse, exposing two, very long, massive snakes with girths larger than a grown man’s neck.

The snakes tried crawling back into the crevice separating the ceiling and the roof.

The men had to wrench the two pythons out of the ceiling, catch them as they slithered on the floor, and place them inside a metal enclosure, as Madam Som and her daughter watched in horror.

One measured 5m long and weighed about 32kg, while the other was 4m in length and weighed about 25kg.

Madam Som told the Malaysia Gazette the snakes could have come from an unoccupied house next door overgrown indoors with thick vegetation.

She said it would have been even more traumatising if the snakes had fallen on her daughter as she slept.

“Allah wanted to protect her that night,” she told the Gazette.

A spokesman for an animal welfare agency said the two snakes would be released back into the wild.

Reticulated pythons are native to South-east Asia, and are among the largest snakes in the world, and can reach lengths of up to 7m and weigh up to 75kg. They usually mate in February and March.