Snake in Toilet

There's an article in the papers today about someone finding a snake in their toilet. I'll tell you a more amazing story.

It happened to my friend Eric (KS's best man at our wedding). He lives on the 12th floor of his apartments. He woke up early one Saturday morning and went into his attached bathroom. The first thing he noticed was that the toilet seat was down and for a guy who lives alone, this hardly happens. Shrugging it off, he started cleaning the bathroom, taking his time in cleaning it carefully since he had the whole morning to do it.

Then he got into the shower and also took his time. As he shoved the shower curtain aside to step out, he glanced up and noticed this huge monster of a snake coiled tightly around some drain pipes just above his toilet. If you had never seen a dripping naked guy jump out of the bathroom in absolute fright, this was the time it happened.

He immediately slammed the bathroom door shut and called the Fire & Rescue Department after he calmed his nerves and dressed. The person who responded to the call was almost disbelieving, "What, you're saying there's a snake on your 12th floor apartment?".

Not wanting to be in the same vincinity of the snake, he proceeded downstairs to the entrance of his apartment to wait for the fire brigade. Now, this was already about 8:30am when the fire engines wailed and screamed their sirens into his apartments, causing a rousing amongst the residents. The burly men jumped out and Eric took them to his apartment. By that time, the entourage had attracted a mass of inquisitive neighbours. They kept asking Eric to let them into his place to see the snake but Eric, in a flash horroried realisation, decided against letting them trample into his clean apartments just to gawk at the snake while the firemen tried to wring it from the pipes.

In the end, they managed to bring it down and bag it. One fireman confessed that in all his years of service, he had NEVER encountered such a huge snake. It was estimated to be about 10 feet long with a massive diameter of a good 6 inches.

In the midst of all the hullabaloo, a tousled Korean student appeared and claimed that the snake was his. Apparently he had just bought it from a pet shop the day before and had not secured the enclosure, resulting in its escape. He reported it's disappearance to the guards but somehow none of the guards seemed to have remembered in time to tell Eric it belonged to his neighbour.

Eric blasted the Korean boy for his irresponsibility and demanded he remove it from the premises immediately. It was fortunate that the boy was in the process of shifting out so he managed to park the snake somewhere else before he shifted out.

Oh, I have more Stories of Eric which will amaze you but will have to tell you at another time as I need to go home now.