BRISBANE: A man got the fright of his life after finding a huge carpet python lurking inside his toilet bowl in Brisbane, Australia, according to The Daily Mail.
The snake was swimming in the toilet’s water with its body positioned in an “s” shape after it slid through an outdoor pipe.
Stewart Lalor from Brisbane Snake Catchers got an emergency call at about 6:45am in the morning to remove the snake from the residential place.
“They gave us a call to have it removed so they could finish their business in peace,” said Lalor.
“I just put on a pair of gloves and dunked my hand in to take the snake. Carpet pythons are very common in Queensland.”
According to Lalor, it isn’t common to find snakes in toilets, because only two or three incidents are reported every season.
“People think pythons always want to be in the sun but they can also overheat and need to find ways to cool down,” he said.
Snakes often slid into homes from open drains in older designed homes such as the family home Lalor visited.
Carpet pythons are amongst the most commonly caught non-venomous snake in Queensland by snake catching services.
However, their bites can leave a fair amount of laceration and even a bit of bleeding if left unattended.
The snakes can grow to a length of more than three metres in length, according to the Queensland Museum.
