Posted on 03/08/2010 8:44:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A Townsville man has had the shock of his life after a 2.7 metre python climbed through the sewerage pipes to emerge through his toilet bowl.
Richard Eves found the massive carpet python in his toilet at around 9pm one night after coming up through the pipes.
Despite its size, carpet pythons are largely harmless to humans but Mr Eves said it was still a shock to find it.
"It is unusual having a python in your toilet bowl — it doesn't happen every day," he said.
"I knew it wasn't dangerous but I was absolutely flabbergasted."
The wrangler who removed the python measured it at an astonishing 2.7 metres, only 30cm off the Townsville area record, Mr Eves said.
"It must have been in the sewer system chasing rats and it got stuck," he said.
"That's how they wound up in a toilet."
Queensland snake catcher Geoff Jacobs said it was quite common for pythons and green tree snakes to make their way into people's toilets.
"It happens all the time...I would probably get called to about 10 year," he said.
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Nothing bothers an Aussie.
Why did Richard Eves come up through the pipes at that hour?
About 9 feet long.
Oh please dear God in Heaven and sweet baby Jesus, don’t ever, ever let that happen to me.
and THAT is why I always turn on the light when I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night
Reminds me of when my brother-in-law would clog the turlet on his visits for Friday’s Chili Night.
Sounds like something straight out of South Park...
Just when I was about to get a blumpkin....
Now that's what I call a sinker.
Oh please dear God in Heaven and sweet baby Jesus, don’t ever, ever let that happen to me.
Keep the lid down or they can crawl out.
That IS disgusting!
Snakes give me the creeps.
:-O
fullchroma, please accept my apology for the remark about keeping the toilet lid down. My daughter is very afraid of snakes and I should have thought better.
Not likely to happen here in the US. Our toilets are different. Toilets in OZ have very little water at the bottom compared to our bowl.
What, you folks have never had to snake out a toilet?
Reflect for a moment on the fact that "snake catcher" is a recognized profession in Australia.
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