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Friday, 5 July, 2002, 07:59 GMT 08:59 UK
Singapore family's toilet snake ordeal
Pythons can turn deadly without warning
A family in Singapore was caught short when a two-metre (six feet six inches) long python took refuge in their toilet for two days.
He and his wife called the police, but the snake slithered away. The family thought the snake had escaped down the squatting toilet, which they barricaded with a wooden washing board weighed down with a bucket of water. "It was very inconvenient," their daughter, 28-year-old Tan Cheng-peng, told the newspaper. "When we had no choice but to use the toilet, we would use it quickly and keep an eye out for the snake." The snake appeared to have vanished, until Mr Tan's wife Chua went to the toilet on Thursday morning and was confronted by a black mass inside.
The police were once again called. They managed to capture the snake and hand it to the Singapore Zoo. The zoo receives about 300 snakes a year, most of them reticulated pythons native to Singapore. "They often end up in homes," said Amelia Lee, a zoo spokeswoman. "But it is unusual that he managed to slither up 10 flights." |
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