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Python Found in Toilet Bowl
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by Heiky | June 20, 2008 at 11:53 am
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Australian residents found that a python awaited them in their toilet bowl. The python is 1.8 meter (nearly six feet) long, and is discovered in a highrise apartment in Australia's northern tropical city of Darwin.
A 1.8 meter (nearly six feet) python has been found in a toilet bowl in a highrise apartment in Australia's northern tropical city of Darwin, media reported on Friday.The Northern Territory News said the black-headed python was found in a 10th floor toilet.
Reptile catcher Chris Peberdy told the newspaper the python, likely to be a runaway pet, had been traveling through the building's sewer pipes.
"When I saw it I was pretty shocked," he said. "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."
This reminds me of the basilisk in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Snakes travelling through sewage pipes.
Shivers.
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at 12:06 on June 20th, 2008
I swear that was my biggest fear when i was little. Thinking about the possibility of weird reptiles or creatures in the toilet.
at 12:18 on June 20th, 2008
Awww, I feel sorry for him! Crawling through the sewer pipe - ewwww!
at 12:31 on June 20th, 2008
Python from the Live Reptiles exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in NYC. 6/7/08
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at 13:33 on June 20th, 2008
That's awful!
at 20:01 on June 20th, 2008
This is a picture of my gorgeous ball python, Zelda, eating a large rat. Besides feeding time, Zelda is as sweet and loving as a puppy. I have had him for 5 years now and wouldn't trade him for the world. =)
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at 20:05 on June 20th, 2008
This reminds me about what happened to Alice Cooper's pet python several years ago. He took it on tour with him and it went missing in a hotel. A few months later, people staying in the same room found it happily curled up in the toilet bowl. I just don't know how they can squeeze through the s-bend - and what do they live on in the meantime?
at 20:29 on June 20th, 2008
Heiky, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 21:11 on June 20th, 2008
One wonders what else lurks in those pipes..
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at 23:03 on June 20th, 2008
This little one wasn`t found in a toillet bowl, but in a Safari park, close to Jakarta...
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at 02:26 on June 21st, 2008
A Juvenile Australian Olive Python.
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