Woman gets bitten on bottom by carpet python in TOILET
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By Practical Parenting team
January 24 2019
A Queensland woman got more than she bargained for when she attempted to use the toilet and was bitten on the bottom by a carpet python snake.
Helen Richards was at her sister-in-law’s Brisbane home when it happened earlier this week.
“I felt this sharp tap and a little bit of pain. I thought it was a green frog, but then I thought green frogs don't have teeth,” she told The Courier Mail.
“I jumped up with my pants down and turned around to see what looked like a longneck turtle receding back into the bowl,” she added.
The snake bit her hard enough to draw blood but thankfully carpet pythons are not poisonous.
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Mrs Richards closed the toilet lid and placed two plant pots on top before calling a snake catcher, Jasmine Zeleny.
Ms Zeleny, from Snake Catchers, said that in 25 years the company had not had an incident where someone had been bitten on the bottom by a snake while using the toilet before, reports the Daily Mail.
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Ms Zeleny successfully removed the snake and relocated it to a nearby creek.
Mrs Richards had a tetanus shot as a precaution and a gin and tonic to settle her nerves.
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