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Snake Bites Man While Sitting on Toilet

Taipei : Taiwan | 5 months ago  
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Snake in Toilet

Taipei, Taiwan- A Taiwanese man was bit on his penis by a snake in his toilet as he sat there in the bathroom of his rural home in Nantou County, Taiwan.

He felt a sharp pain as soon as he sat down on the toilet and instinctively stood up immediately only to look down and see a large black and yellow snake in the toilet bowl.

The 51 year old man was getting medical care with minor injuries at a local hospital and doctors expected him to make a full recovery.

Local television images showed the reptile being plucked away from the toilet bowl by local authorities. It is believed that the snake entered his toilet through a crack in the lid of his septic tank. Snakes are known to regularly enter rural Taiwanese homes via the toilet and drainage in sub-tropical regions of Asia. So next time you are in a rural town in Taiwan visiting, be sure look carefully all around before you sit down on the toilet .

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Posted By YeshPrabhu YeshPrabhu | 5 months ago
Perhaps the hungry snake thought it saw a tiny mouse. But the question is - why the man did not look into the toilet before sitting down? Generally people look in the toilet at least to make sure that it is clean and usable.
Yesh Prabhu, Plainsboro, NJ
Posted By Majdy Majdy | 5 months ago
Okay now this one news is terrifying! Snake in a toilet bowl is like the worst place one can imagine to find a snake and that too you get bitten in a very wrong place at a very wrong time...Ohh Not good!
Posted By ruhulrushd ruhulrushd | 5 months ago
Lets pray, so that we may be safe from such type of occarence.
Posted By prodiglow prodiglow | 5 months ago
word of advise, flush before u pee!
Posted By mllovric mllovric | 5 months ago
It reminds me of an Australian song, RED BACK SPIDER ON A TOILET SEAT that bit a man who sat on the toilet seat in Australia. Miron Lovric, 19/5/2009.
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