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Man bitten by neighbor’s escaped python in toilet in Austria
Fox News ^ | July 5, 2021

Posted on 07/05/2021 12:12:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A man in Austria was bitten by a 5 1/4-foot python during an early-morning visit to the toilet at his home on Monday, police said.

The 65-year-old victim "felt a ‘nip’ in the genital area" shortly after sitting on the toilet at home in Graz just after 6 a.m., according to a statement from police in Styria province. He then looked into the toilet and discovered the albino reticulated python.

The snake apparently had escaped unnoticed from the apartment of the man’s 24-year-old neighbor. It wasn’t immediately possible to figure out how it escaped and how it got into the toilet, but police said it may have made its way through the drains.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: austria; python; toilet
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To: gundog
Never interrupt a python when it’s using the toilet, would be my take-away from that story. Gruesome.

What's interesting about the solution in that case was that they didn't want to kill the snake. Instead of just getting a knife and cutting the python in half, they took the time and trouble to open its jaws. I would have just asked for the knife.
41 posted on 07/05/2021 1:35:38 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Perseverando

BTDT.

One day, mother went in to use the toilet and immediately came out hollering about a snake in it. No one believed her but she kept on and on about it. Grandpa got tired of listening to her so went to his solution for everything - gasoline. He poured a gallon down the toilet and a bunch of weird white stuff came floating up. Of course, I sat down in front of it, rested my arms on the seat and stuck my nose in to see what the stuff was. About that time, a six foot racer shot out and hit me square between the eyes knocking me back and was going crazy trying to slither up to the ceiling.

I ran to the living room and jumped on the coffee table. Mother followed to the couch. Grandpa was left alone in the bathroom hollering for someone to shut the door. Miss Prim and Proper Mother told him to shut the @(&^_(*# door himself. It was an old farmhouse so the door was several inches above the floor so the snake came at us in the living room.

Grandpa later admitted he’d been hearing noises in the bathroom at night and had put a rock on the toilet lid.


42 posted on 07/05/2021 1:52:14 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

Guess they still haven’t found the cobra that escaped last week.


43 posted on 07/05/2021 1:53:17 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Dr. Franklin

If that’s their policy, they need to find a way to make the snake let go, NOW. Ammonia? Chloroform? I mean, really. The guy struggles for a half hour and THEN passes out?


44 posted on 07/05/2021 1:53:36 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Just a barbaric little psycho.

Yep.


45 posted on 07/05/2021 2:00:49 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: bgill

They caught that Raleigh cobra on someone’s porch about a 1/2 mile from where he escaped.


46 posted on 07/05/2021 2:01:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin

Kind of makes sense to be bitten down under in Australia.


47 posted on 07/05/2021 2:03:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Thank goodness.

Hope he didn’t find a friend to mate with. Why are those things allowed into the US? Why is any exotic animal allowed in?


48 posted on 07/05/2021 2:26:02 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

Wait, he was bit in his Austria?

Or maybe he was bit in his land down under? I get them confused. The man bit his neighbor...


49 posted on 07/05/2021 2:50:40 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of the Alligator scare in the NYC sewer system back in the late 50’s. People coming up from Florida to NYC, would bring up baby Alligators and put them in a fish tank, no water in tank. When they got tired of the gators, they would flush the little guys. As a kid it left quite an impression on me.


50 posted on 07/05/2021 2:57:31 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Rebelbase

Winner!


51 posted on 07/05/2021 2:59:06 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: BenLurkin

Look before you sit.


52 posted on 07/05/2021 4:10:31 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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