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Snake slithers out of toilet, bites Florida man on arm
Associated Press ^ | May 28, 2019

Posted on 05/28/2019 10:48:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Authorities say a ball python slithered out of a toilet and bit a South Florida man on the arm.

Coral Springs police spokesman Chris Swinson said the man was treated at the scene after the 4-foot (1.2-meter) snake bit him when he lifted the toilet seat on Sunday morning. The snake is nonvenomous. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: ballpython; coralsprings; florida; floridaman; toilet
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1 posted on 05/28/2019 10:48:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

pigmy rattlers around here (cfl)... beware.


2 posted on 05/28/2019 10:55:11 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Olog-hai

ok...so why was his arm in the toilet?


3 posted on 05/28/2019 10:56:56 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Olog-hai

Be glad it was just the arm.
Imagine going to the E-Room with snake still attached ‘elsewhere’! “Yes, there IS a snake in my pants, and no, I am NOT happy to see you.”


4 posted on 05/28/2019 10:57:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai
Luckily it wasn't venomous... or worse...


5 posted on 05/28/2019 10:58:48 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Mr. Blond

3rd arm.


6 posted on 05/28/2019 11:10:48 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: martin_fierro

...almost a ping.


7 posted on 05/28/2019 11:11:24 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Delta 21

Run a drain to a rock pile instead of a septic tank. Crap happens. I saw a grey water pipe ran that way. Scorpion crawled up in the kitchen sink. Scared the hell out of mom. Dad did it at our cabin in Lake of the Ozarks to save money. He changed it later that day. Just sayin.


8 posted on 05/28/2019 11:19:45 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: Olog-hai

Just watched a new show (Discovery Ch) with a guy, dog and 4 other people that catch pythons for Florida game and fish. There are saying that 300,000 of these are wiping out the rest of the wild animals and birds. The pythons are eating feral hogs and gators as well. In the Everglades.


9 posted on 05/28/2019 11:28:46 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Mr. Blond
"why was his arm in the toilet?"

It was Florida Man. That is how he does it.

10 posted on 05/29/2019 12:43:46 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: mabarker1

Yes, pythons were brought into the country as “pets” and then got loose and migrated to the Everglades. Since there are no known predators in Florida, they have multiplied like crazy and are eating everything they can find, including alligator eggs. Small dogs, rabbits, rats...all tasty treats.


11 posted on 05/29/2019 12:53:02 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Obama is hanging out in toilets & biting people these days? No wonder we haven’t heard much from him lately.


12 posted on 05/29/2019 1:41:16 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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Invasion of foreign animals and plants take on many forms. Things as innocuous as small mussels which hitch a ride in the ballast of foreign ships coming into port multiply like wildfire, costing utilities millions of dollars every year to clean their water discharge facilities. Foreign plants do the same and end up spreading into freshwater lakes and streams, choking out native plants and creating navigational hazards to boaters and residents along the waterways contend with tons of floating plants crowding their shores. Parakeets, parrots and foreign bird species are now found in dozens of warmer climate states, competing with native birds and spreading disease, all because someone decided to release them into the wild instead of disposing of them properly.


13 posted on 05/29/2019 1:52:53 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Olog-hai

It could have been worse.

Much worse.


14 posted on 05/29/2019 1:57:35 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Olog-hai

“The snake is nonvenomous. …”

Black snakes are nonvenomous too, but according to my vet, their bite can infect an animal like your dog or you with salmonella and that can kill them, or you. Antibiotics are needed immediately to be on the safe side.


15 posted on 05/29/2019 2:16:40 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Olog-hai

When I was 9 we lived in a very rural setting in Annapolis, MD.
One morning when I got up, I found a snake in the toilet. I tried to grab it in order to take it outside. It bit me. It was a cotton mouth water moccasin. That day I found out about snake bite antivenom, tetanus shots and rabies shots to the stomach.


16 posted on 05/29/2019 2:49:30 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Olog-hai

Never put the lid down. Or get a see through one.


17 posted on 05/29/2019 3:31:25 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Olog-hai

Never put the lid down. Or get a see through one.


18 posted on 05/29/2019 3:31:45 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: UnwashedPeasant

More on Florida Man’s antics here:

https://floridaman.com/


19 posted on 05/29/2019 3:51:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Sa-teef

Another example - fire ants from South America came on a ship to Mobile, AL in the 1950s (IIRC). I remember them as a child in the 1960s in lower AL and now they are tormenting me in south eastern NC.


20 posted on 05/29/2019 4:05:19 AM PDT by OldNukeDaddy
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