Six-Foot Python Slithers Out Of Apartment Toilet
Posted June 20, 2008 12:00 pm.
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It’s everyone’s nightmare, a story that has taken on almost apocryphal proportions – the thought of a large snake slithering its way up into someone’s home through their toilet. Yet it actually happened in Darwin, Australia this week, after a six-foot long python made its presence known on the 10th floor of an apartment complex in the northwestern part of the city.
Experts think the serpent was somebody’s pet and they either didn’t want it anymore or it somehow got away from the owner and found a convenient escape route. Either way, it had apparently been travelling through the pipes for some time before it came up in the bathroom of a very startled tenant.
The creature was given over to reptile catcher Chris Peberdy, who told a local newspaper even he was surprised by its appearance. “When I saw it I was pretty shocked,” he admits. “There is no possible other way it could have got there than through the toilet. I had to give him a wash because he was wet and a bit smelly.”
Meanwhile, thousand of kilometres away, a woman in Londonderry, New Hampshire got the scare of her life when she reached into her outdoor mailbox, pulled out some letters and discovered her own slithering surprise inside.
A corn snake was sitting amongst the bills and the ads, although it doesn’t appear anyone mailed it to her. Experts think the non-venomous beast was simply looking for a place to nest or rest and the cool mailbox was the perfect solution.
No one was hurt in either case, although some people in that Aussie apartment may want to have a second look before they take care of business in the bathroom.
