Python Ascends Pipes to Bite Austrian Man Sitting on Toilet

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A 65-year-old man in the city of Graz, Austria, recently had a common fear come true. While he was sitting on the toilet, a five-foot albino reticulated python slithered up the drainage system in the man’s home and bit him in a sensitive area. Police believe the python belongs to one of the man’s neighbors and had escaped its owner’s home, somehow making its way through the drains and finding its victim.

Reptiles evolved in many ways to survive on land. In his video series Zoology: Understanding the Animal World, Dr. Donald E. Moore III, director of the Oregon Zoo and senior science advisor at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, said their jaws adapted to land quite noticeably.

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“In most reptiles, bony joints allow the snout and upper jaw to move on the rest of the skull,” Dr. Moore said. “The quadrate bone is [the] hindmost part of the upper jaw joint, and can move at both its dorsal and ventral extremes; that is, at both the lower jaw and pterygoid bone, which is part of the palate. Even the snout bones can be raised to open the mouth wide, or lowered to maximize bite force between the jaws.”




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1. .

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2. Oh

Shit!

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7. ...

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3. Danger down under, down under.

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13. Austria, not Australia nt

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4. If someone was taking a crap on me, I would bite them too!

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5. I hate it when that happens.

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6. albino reticulated python

Also known as Uranus Bitus...

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8. ...

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10. I will share a snake and toilet story

I was the superintendent for a large plumbing company and it fell on me to deal with the inevitable odd customer. I tried to treat everyone with respect and dignity no matter how crazy they were.

We had a regular customer who complained several times about a snake living in her toilet. We would dispatch a service man who would go look and report back, with a smile, that of course, there was no snake in her toilet. This went on, of and on for a couple of months and it was the company joke until one day, a service man showed up and captured the Oak Snake that was in her toilet.

This lady's house was completely shaded by some giant Oak trees and we finally figured out that the snakes were coming down the large vent pipe probably in search of water during the dry summer season. We ended up screening the vent pipes on the roof and the problem ceased.

The woman must have been terrified and we were laughing at her behind her back. I felt like a heel.

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16. Wow

Glad the problem was solved.



Thanks!

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11. Nightmares, forever.

I'm serious!

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17. Always look

Before you sit!

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12. Ah, the old "python bites the balls" story

These never get old.

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14. Where was that python before Adolf got into power? Nt

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15. First the Great Toilet Paper Famine of '20, then the critical

shortages of Chick-fil-A sauce, then getting bitten on the naughty bits by a python. It's the End Times, I tell ya. Just like the Bible said.

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18. And Taco Bell

Is experiencing ingredient shortages.

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19. Actually, I didn't forget. That one was just too painful to include.

Ding Dongs just aren't the same without taco sauce. (Of course, Ding Dongs just aren't the same anyway, what with Hostess reaching its expiration date.)

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20. Were so skrewed!