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    Default A real Ball python

    On the lengthy list of things you do not want to find in your toilet, this may rank at the top.



    Florida police said a 52-year-old Coral Springs man had gone to the bathroom early Sunday morning and, when he lifted the toilet seat, a four-foot snake “rose up and bit him,” the Sun Sentinel reported.

    The newspaper reported the bite was on the man's arm.

    Chris Swinson, a police spokesman, said the town’s humane unit responded to the scene and removed the snake – later identified as a ball python. After being taken to a veterinarian office, the snake was treated for a scale infection.

    “It’s everybody’s worst nightmare,” Swinson told Coral Springs Talk. “But it’s in an apartment plumbing system, so there are many possibilities.”

    The nonvenomous snake did not belong to the man who was bitten, and it’s unclear how it got into the toilet, Swinson told the Sun Sentinel.


    He said it could have belonged to a previous resident or found its way into the apartment building’s plumbing...somehow.

    The man bitten was treated at his apartment.

    Ball pythons are one of the most popular non-native snakes in the pet trade, according to the Florida & Wildlife Conservation Commission. They rarely grow larger than four feet and are generally considered to be timid.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/snakes-sl...es-florida-man

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    what a pain in the ass.

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    I looked at the title and was like gross..

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    Well thank God they got it to a Veterinarian. I can't image the risk of infection from biting a Floridian...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Well thank God they got it to a Veterinarian. I can't image the risk of infection from biting an Ohioan living in Florida...
    Lol jab. Fify
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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Well thank God they got it to a Veterinarian. I can't image the risk of infection from biting a Floridian...
    I read that earlier...wtf is it under veteranairian care? Doesn't Florida have a huge problem with them in the wild already? Those things need to be killed on sight! What are they going to do with it, find it a foster home? Lol!

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    They took it to the wrong vet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reeltight View Post
    what a pain in the ass.
    Didn't the article say it bit him on the arm?

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    Alice Cooper told a story once of one of his snakes getting lost in a hotel plumbing system. It turned up in Charlie Pride’s toilet some time later.

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    I'm very unsure why this animal went to the vet. There are python hunting programs in place to kill these invasives. That dead snake is worth like $50. Shoot and scoop on site.
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    It's okay that's sometimes no one else gets my jokes.

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    didja think it was a selfie HS ?
    We gave you Corn,you gave us clap,bad trade.

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    Thanks Harv

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    :courtesy laugh:
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    It's okay. My heart doesn't ache.

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    He was lucky it only bit him in the arm. With a name like "ball" python...

    But Ball Pythons do not reproduce in the wild in Florida and are not a problem. My neighbor breeds and sells them and he has over 70 in his house right now, in just about any color and pattern you want. Some sell for over a grand.
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    your neighbor is weird
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    must be hard on the knees.
    We gave you Corn,you gave us clap,bad trade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Downeast View Post
    He was lucky it only bit him in the arm. With a name like "ball" python...

    But Ball Pythons do not reproduce in the wild in Florida and are not a problem. My neighbor breeds and sells them and he has over 70 in his house right now, in just about any color and pattern you want. Some sell for over a grand.
    Which constrictor is the one all over the place down there?

    They have a major issue with one of them in wild down there.

    Seems like they would help cull the monkeys running around silver springs
    Yup, he's crazy...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Downeast View Post
    He was lucky it only bit him in the arm. With a name like "ball" python...

    But Ball Pythons do not reproduce in the wild in Florida and are not a problem. My neighbor breeds and sells them and he has over 70 in his house right now, in just about any color and pattern you want. Some sell for over a grand.
    Prayers from here. I would have to move!

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