05-12-2009, 06:33
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Toilet snake attack: urban legend comes true?
Ouch! 
Richard's $.02 
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Toilet snake attack: urban legend comes true?
Reuters, 11 May 2009
A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on Monday.
"As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."
The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.
"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go," the director, who declined to be named, said. "A snake's mouth isn't always clean."
Local television images showed the black and yellow reptile, reportedly a species of rat snake, being uncoiled and plucked slowly from the toilet bowl.
Snakes regularly enter rural homes in Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090511/od_nm/us_snake_odd
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05-12-2009, 06:48
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Maybe it's just me? But I always take a peek before sitting down.
In doing so, I think/ I hope, I would had noticed a large, medium or small snake coiled up in my toilet.
But I do it to make sure my youngest didn't try to teach penthouse Barbie to swim.....
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05-12-2009, 08:54
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Originally Posted by csquare
Maybe it's just me? But I always take a peek before sitting down.
In doing so, I think/ I hope, I would had noticed a large, medium or small snake coiled up in my toilet.
But I do it to make sure my youngest didn't try to teach penthouse Barbie to swim.....
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I'm betting he wasn't a flusher.... so the snake had some concealment! 
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05-12-2009, 09:28
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As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."
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Some people would love to look down and see a big snake. . .
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05-12-2009, 10:18
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05-13-2009, 08:16
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Lucky it wasn't a brown recluse. Amazing. I guess the snake realized, as stated that it happens in NYC, rats use the sewer system to enter houses.
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05-13-2009, 08:33
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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
Lucky it wasn't a brown recluse.
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By good luck, night before last, I shined a flashlight to where I was about to step down from the front door in time to see a black widow. And then another one that was quite a bit larger.
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05-13-2009, 08:33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by csquare
Maybe it's just me? But I always take a peek before sitting down.
In doing so, I think/ I hope, I would had noticed a large, medium or small snake coiled up in my toilet.
But I do it to make sure my youngest didn't try to teach penthouse Barbie to swim.....
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Or in this case a relative of the former Mrs. Bobitt......
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05-13-2009, 09:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyobanim
Some people would love to look down and see a big snake. . .
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K,
You've got that one right........  It's funny how big snakes get smaller as they age. 
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