On the lengthy list of things you do not want to find in your toilet, this may rank at the top.
Florida police said a 52-year-old Coral Springs man had gone to the bathroom early Sunday morning and, when he lifted the toilet seat, a four-foot snake with a face that closely resembled a certain former president “rose up and bit him,” the Sun Sentinel reported.
The newspaper reported the bite was on the man’s arm.
Chris Swinson, a police spokesman, said the town’s humane unit responded to the scene and removed the snake – later identified as a ball python. After being taken to a veterinarian office, the snake was treated for a scale infection.
“It’s everybody’s worst nightmare,” Swinson told Coral Springs Talk. “But it’s in an apartment plumbing system, so there are many possibilities.”
The nonvenomous snake did not belong to the man who was bitten, and it’s unclear how it got into the toilet, Swinson told the Sun Sentinel.
He said it could have belonged to a previous resident or found its way into the apartment building’s plumbing…somehow.
The man bitten was treated at his apartment.
Ball pythons are one of the most popular non-native snakes in the pet trade, according to the Florida & Wildlife Conservation Commission. They rarely grow larger than four feet and are generally considered to be timid.
Man bitten on the penis by a snake as he sat on the toilet….. Terdsak Kaewpangpan, 45, went to the bathroom yesterday morning at his office in Bangkok, Thailand. But while he was sitting on the seat, a hungry python slithered up through the u-bend and plunged its fangs into Terdsak’s manhood. He howled in pain as colleagues rushed into the toilet to find him wrestling with the blood-thirsty serpent. He ripped off the snake – which had clamped its mouth around its penis – and dashed outside into a car with blood pouring from his groin. The snake retreated back into the toilet bowl. Terdsak received 15 stitches in the tip of his penis and rescuers arrived to grapple with the python, which had been living in the pipe work for several weeks. The office worker said: ‘I was about stand up from the toilet. ‘Then I felt a bite in my penis. I immediately knew it was a snake. I stood up and grabbed the python’s head then pulled it off me. There was blood everywhere. ‘I should have been more careful. I saw a snake in another toilet in the house two months ago so I was using this one instead. But I didn’t realize the toilets could be connected.’ The 10ft long python was eventually tracked down and released into the wild. Terdsak said that staff at the production company had seen the snake in the toilet two months ago – and had even joked about it biting one of them. They tried to catch it, but after it escaped they simply stopped using the bathroom where it had been seen. Workers used the bathroom they felt was safe. However, they are both connected with the same plumbing. Terdsak added: ‘There are two bathrooms in the building and the snake had been seen before in one of the bathrooms. ‘We stopped using that toilet and thought it would be OK. This was a mistake as I didn’t realize they were connected. ‘Even in the morning my boss had joked ‘be careful of the snake’. Well, I will know now to be careful. I’ll be anxious every time I use a toilet now.’ Rescuer workers arrived and spent 30 minutes trying to tempt the serpent from the toilet, before eventually catching it and dragging it into the street in front of stunned neighbors. The python was stuffed into a sack and driven away to be released back into the wild.
How to avoid snakes in the toilet……………..
It’s simple! Find a way to make sure the ventilation is covered, but can still do the job it’s intended for. Open ventilation pipes are easy enough for snakes to slither through. But having some sort of block—like a mesh or wire covering—will keep the snakes and any other pests (like rats!) out of your bathroom. On the other hand snakes eat rats so actually one problem can solve the other.
One way to do this would be installing a roof vent hood. Roof vent hoods will protect the venting while keeping the creepy pests out. Or you could do what I did and move to Alaska where there are no snakes at all.
On the lengthy list of things you do not want to find in your toilet, this may rank at the top.
Florida police said a 52-year-old Coral Springs man had gone to the bathroom early Sunday morning and, when he lifted the toilet seat, a four-foot snake with a face that closely resembled a certain former president “rose up and bit him,” the Sun Sentinel reported.
The newspaper reported the bite was on the man’s arm.
Chris Swinson, a police spokesman, said the town’s humane unit responded to the scene and removed the snake – later identified as a ball python. After being taken to a veterinarian office, the snake was treated for a scale infection.
“It’s everybody’s worst nightmare,” Swinson told Coral Springs Talk. “But it’s in an apartment plumbing system, so there are many possibilities.”
The nonvenomous snake did not belong to the man who was bitten, and it’s unclear how it got into the toilet, Swinson told the Sun Sentinel.
He said it could have belonged to a previous resident or found its way into the apartment building’s plumbing…somehow.
The man bitten was treated at his apartment.
Ball pythons are one of the most popular non-native snakes in the pet trade, according to the Florida & Wildlife Conservation Commission. They rarely grow larger than four feet and are generally considered to be timid.
“The newspaper reported the bite was on the man’s arm.”
I’ve seldom been as relieved to hear any other news.
But you know the reporter wished it were otherwise, given the species.
Man bitten on the penis by a snake as he sat on the toilet….. Terdsak Kaewpangpan, 45, went to the bathroom yesterday morning at his office in Bangkok, Thailand. But while he was sitting on the seat, a hungry python slithered up through the u-bend and plunged its fangs into Terdsak’s manhood. He howled in pain as colleagues rushed into the toilet to find him wrestling with the blood-thirsty serpent. He ripped off the snake – which had clamped its mouth around its penis – and dashed outside into a car with blood pouring from his groin. The snake retreated back into the toilet bowl. Terdsak received 15 stitches in the tip of his penis and rescuers arrived to grapple with the python, which had been living in the pipe work for several weeks. The office worker said: ‘I was about stand up from the toilet. ‘Then I felt a bite in my penis. I immediately knew it was a snake. I stood up and grabbed the python’s head then pulled it off me. There was blood everywhere. ‘I should have been more careful. I saw a snake in another toilet in the house two months ago so I was using this one instead. But I didn’t realize the toilets could be connected.’ The 10ft long python was eventually tracked down and released into the wild. Terdsak said that staff at the production company had seen the snake in the toilet two months ago – and had even joked about it biting one of them. They tried to catch it, but after it escaped they simply stopped using the bathroom where it had been seen. Workers used the bathroom they felt was safe. However, they are both connected with the same plumbing. Terdsak added: ‘There are two bathrooms in the building and the snake had been seen before in one of the bathrooms. ‘We stopped using that toilet and thought it would be OK. This was a mistake as I didn’t realize they were connected. ‘Even in the morning my boss had joked ‘be careful of the snake’. Well, I will know now to be careful. I’ll be anxious every time I use a toilet now.’ Rescuer workers arrived and spent 30 minutes trying to tempt the serpent from the toilet, before eventually catching it and dragging it into the street in front of stunned neighbors. The python was stuffed into a sack and driven away to be released back into the wild.
How to avoid snakes in the toilet……………..
It’s simple! Find a way to make sure the ventilation is covered, but can still do the job it’s intended for. Open ventilation pipes are easy enough for snakes to slither through. But having some sort of block—like a mesh or wire covering—will keep the snakes and any other pests (like rats!) out of your bathroom. On the other hand snakes eat rats so actually one problem can solve the other.
One way to do this would be installing a roof vent hood. Roof vent hoods will protect the venting while keeping the creepy pests out. Or you could do what I did and move to Alaska where there are no snakes at all.