A North Carolina man found himself in an unexpected tug-of-war with a snake in his toilet. According to Inside Edition, Mike Green, a resident of Lattimore, North Carolina, discovered a snake curled up in the toilet bowl and had to pull it out by hand — a scenario no homeowner wants to face.
Green explained that snakes have been entering bathrooms through roof ventilation pipes. “He came out of a tree that was hanging over the pipe,” he told Inside Edition about this particular incident. Shockingly, this was the sixth snake to appear in his toilet in just four years (InsideEdition.com).
A now-viral video posted on Facebook (and shared by ViralHog) shows Green reaching into the toilet and pulling out a nearly 6-foot-long black rat snake with his bare hands (viralhog.com). He said it was the largest one he’d ever encountered, and after removing it, he released it back into the wild.
Reptile and wildlife experts from the L.A. Zoo describe these snakes as “sleek animals that can fit into tight spaces… navigate through the sewer system… and find their way into someone’s toilet” (InsideEdition.com).