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Boy finds snake in loo

 
 
Reyn
 
Reply Sun 21 May, 2006 08:42 pm
Boy finds snake in loo

A Shropshire boy was sitting on the loo when a two-and-a-half foot snake reared out of the toilet bowl.

Daniel Peate, 11, slammed the lid and called for his dad as the reptile tried to escape, reports the Mirror.

Daniel said: "I had the fright of my life when it poked its head up. I jumped off, did my trousers up and called for my dad because I thought it might be poisonous.

"Now every time I need the loo I always look in first to make sure the snake hasn't come back."

Dad David, 41, said: "Daniel's a bit of a prankster so I didn't believe him at first."

The snake stayed more than 90 minutes and was photographed by the family but vanished back down the drain before the RSPCA arrived.

The family, from Ruyton-XI Towns, looked the creature up on the internet and identified it as a non-venomous corn snake from the southern US.

Experts think it escaped from a nearby owner or was abandoned and got there along the sewers.

http://www.ratsnakes.com/images/Egguttata2.jpg

Corn snake
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makemeshiver33
 
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Reply Sun 21 May, 2006 10:02 pm
WEll now, that would be a bit un-nerving!
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Eva
 
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Reply Sun 21 May, 2006 11:08 pm
Ooh, I saw your post here and did a double take...

This gives "makemeshiver" a whole new meaning!
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 12:46 am
I had that same thing happen to me once, but I WAS thinking naughty thoughts at the time.....
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material girl
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 02:35 am
I heard a similar story in the mid 80's and have been scared about going to the loo ever since!!
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 02:55 am
Don't worry MG!
You needn't be scared, as women experience little or no physical change when they think naughty thoughts.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 03:00 am
Ah.....I now realise that you were referring to the snake, MG.

Yes, one should always be worried about getting a long slithery thing up one's Khyber.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 07:59 am
material girl wrote:
I heard a similar story in the mid 80's and have been scared about going to the loo ever since!!

So, is there a phobia for being scared to use a toilet?
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material girl
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 08:23 am
I believe in latin its called 'Non squattius before you lookius'.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 08:43 am
How many eyes did this snake have?



And I don't blame it for trying to escape....
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dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 09:49 am
Snakes are reasonably commom indoors here one or two reports each year.

as are redback spiders which can be very nasty but usualy not fatal.
For those of you who dont know what a redback is
it looks like this; and is about half inch across including legs so not real big.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Redback_frontal_view.jpg

There is quite a famouse country music song (at least in OZ.)

THE REDBACK ON THE TOILET SEAT
by Slim Newton

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.

I jumped high up into the air
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty redback spider
Wasn't nowhere to be found.

I rushed into the missus,
Told her just where I'd been bit.
She grabbed a cut-throat razor-blade
And I nearly took a fit.

I said, "Just forget what's on your mind
And call a doctor please,
'Cause I got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease."

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.

And now I'm here in hospital
A sad and sorry sight,
And I curse the redback spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I can't lie down, I can't sit up
And I don't know what to do,
And all the nurses think it's funny
But that's not my point of view.

I tell you its embarassing,
And that's to say the least,
That I'm too sick to eat a bit
While that spider had a feast.

And when I get back home again
I tell you what I'll do,
I'll make that redback suffer
For the pain I'm going through.

I've had so many needles
That I'm looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn't very long to live.

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.

But now I'm here in hospital
A sad and sorry sight,
And I curse the redback spider
On the toilet seat last night.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 01:16 pm
material girl wrote:
I believe in latin its called 'Non squattius before you lookius'.

Laughing Hey, good one!
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