Woman calls 911 after finding snake on her toilet in Texas

A woman from Andrews, Texas called the police after she found a large python on her toilet.

Screenshot from Patty Tidwell’s Facebook post.

A Texas woman called 911 after finding a python on her toilet in the middle of the night, photos show.

According to Patty Tidwell, who lives in Andrews Town, a bathroom break put her on “heart attack mode” at 3:30 am when she turned on the light and saw the large line over the back of her toilet.

“That can’t be true,” Tidwell thought, she recalled in a September 3rd Facebook post. “Then his little forked tongue flickered out at me and (I) slammed the door.”

Tidwell called Animal Control, she said. An Andrews policeman arrived and was wrestling with the line.

Authorities believe the snake is someone’s escaped pet, she added. As it got to her bathroom, Tidwell suspects that it crawled through the plumbing.

“The only place it could have come from is the toilet,” she said.

Although the immediate threat has gone, Tidwell is not feeling entirely comfortable and has started stacking rocks to keep the lid closed, she told KWES.

“That was the only way it could have come in. Now I’m afraid to sit on (the toilet),” she said in her Facebook post. “How does that even work?”

While queues crawling up toilets are uncommon and even less likely that a snake will visit your particular toilet, it still does happen, an Australian wildlife expert told BBC News in 2016.

“There is only a small amount of water at the bottom of your toilet bowl. You come up through a dry pipe and there is a bit of water in the S-curve – it only has to go one and a half or five centimeters down and straight back up, ”said the expert. “So it’s very easy once you’ve learned how to do it.”

Mitchell Willetts is a real-time news reporter covering the Carolinas for McClatchy. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and an outdoor enthusiast.