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Snake Found in Australian Toilet
By Nick on June 21, 2008
My first virtual trip to Australia takes me to Darwin, the capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory. As the country’s most northern capital city, it serves as a gateway to Asia, particularly Indonesia and East Timor. What was once a small port town, named after Charles Darwin, it has grown into one of Australia’s most modern cities, despite being completely destroyed by the Japanese in World War 2, and again by Cyclone Tracy in 1974.
Darwin has a tropical climate with both wet and dry seasons, and if you were to visit there, you might expect to see some spectacular lightning. However, you’d probably get more of a shock if you found a black-headed python in the toilet, which is exactly what happened on the 10th floor of a high-rise apartment building in the city.
Chris Peberdy, a reptile catcher, said the snake had been moving through the building’s sewer pipes, and was mostly likely a runaway pet. He was quoted by Reuters as saying,
“When I saw it I was pretty shocked,” he said. “There is no possible other way it could have got there than through the toilet. I had to give him a wash because he was wet and a bit smelly.”
Learn more…
- Darwin on Wikipedia
- Darwin in Google Maps
- Cyclone Tracy on Wikipedia
- The toilet python in Reuters
- Black-headed python on Wikipedia
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
5:34 am on June 22nd, 2008
Of course now I know why I live here in England with cockroaches in the kitchen in Japan and Snakes in the toilet in Australia, I’m quite glad to stick with the tiny bugs over here. Excellent blog and extremely knowledgeable, when going to the toilet always check before you go, you never know what lurks down below.