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. …
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pigmy rattlers around here (cfl)... beware.
ok...so why was his arm in the toilet?
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.”
3rd arm.
...almost a ping.
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.
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.
It was Florida Man. That is how he does it.
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.
Obama is hanging out in toilets & biting people these days? No wonder we haven’t heard much from him lately.
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.
It could have been worse.
Much worse.
“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.
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.
Never put the lid down. Or get a see through one.
Never put the lid down. Or get a see through one.
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.
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