Grandma's House

In St. Petersburg, Florida, Shannon Scavotto was getting ready for work, and lifted the lid to his toilet to throw in some tissue. But the bowl wasn't empty.

Inside was a snake as thick as a child's wrist, its diamond-shaped head sticking 10 inches out of the toilet.

Out of consideration for his wife and three-year-old daughter, and the fact that he couldn't find anyone to help, he fashioned a noose and started to remove the snake from the toilet.

He fashioned a noose out of some PVC pipe and string and grabbed a dark green pillowcase. By now the snake had receded back into the bowels of the toilet. As Scavotto's wife, Beth, and 3-year-old, Ashlynd, looked on, the snake poked its head out again. Scavotto got the noose around its neck and pulled the string taut.

Then started pulling. And pulling. And pulling. And the snake kept coming.

"Get its tail into the pillowcase," he yelled to his wife.

"Where's the tail?" she asked.

Scavotto realized he had about 5 feet of snake and it was still coming.

He finally found the tail and bagged the six-foot snake, saving his family from the terror. My favorite part of the story was his conversation with his boss:

Scavotto called his boss to tell him he'd be late because he'd had to wrestle a snake out of his toilet. His boss joked he would need a better excuse than that.

Scavotto told him he'd bring it in so he could see it. And he did.

It turned out to be an African rock python. You should read this story in its entirety. It goes on to tell about some of the other creatures that have been caught coming up out of toilets, such as snakes, iguanas, and even a squirrel! Almost makes you think it would be safer to go back to using outhouses. You're more prepared to find weird things in there.

Thanks to Eric for the story.