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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0...ball-python-inside-toilet-bowl/4661532352649/
Virginia man finds ball python inside toilet bowl
A Virginia man discovered an uninvited snake inside the bowl of his toilet ...
James Hooper said ... he spotted the snake poking its head out of the toilet of his Virginia Beach home and he suspected it swam up through the pipes.
"When I saw the tongue of the snake, I was like, 'wow'," he said. ...
Hooper and his roommate, Kenny Spruill, tied a noose at the end of a fishing pole and used it to move the snake to a bucket outside.
Virginia Beach Animal Control said the officer summoned by the roommates thought the call was a prank, but arrived to find a real snake.
"I don't recall ever having a call or hearing of one for a snake that was actually found in the toilet," Virginia Beach Animal Control Supervisor Rebecca Franklin said. "[It] is one of those things where you think, 'it can't actually happen,' but now it has."
The snake was identified as a domesticated ball python and was later reunited with its owner, who said the serpent had been missing for about two weeks ...
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0...ball-python-inside-toilet-bowl/4661532352649/