Hahahah!!!!!! The Northern Territory seems to have the best news at the moment... I had to read the second paragraph twice...(twice his size...3.5m?????) and the last sentence a few times...


Snake wrangler catches huge carpet python in toilet...

By Rebekah Cavanagh

Northern Territory News

September 06, 2009 02:00am



Slippery customer ... a man got the fright of his life - and learned to leave the toilet seat down - when a 3.5-metre carpet python took over his bathroom

A MAN got the fright of his life - and learnt he should keep the toilet seat down - when he found a python almost double his size in his dunny.

Erik Rantzau, 49, discovered the 3.5m wild carpet python in the S-bend about four weeks ago in his home near Darwin.

"I happened to be walking past the toilet and glanced in there and here was this snake in a massive coil just sitting up in the toilet," he told the Northern Territory News.

"He was that big that he physically blocked the pipes.

"He stayed in for four days then went out in the garden again for a week or two then appeared in there again one Saturday night.

"I didn't use the toilet - I just kept the lid down and went to another toilet outside."

NT snake wrangler Chris Peberdy went to Mr Rantzau's home in Virginia, in Darwin's rural area, four times trying to catch the python but it kept disappearing into the pipes.




In an attempt to find out the snake's movements, Mr Peberdy coated the floor of Mr Rantzau's home with talcum powder.

"It's a bit of a Territory-born invention," he said. "When I came back we could see he was coming in and out of the back door and going straight into the toilet."

This week he managed to wrangle the evasive reptile when it decided to poke its nose out of the toilet bowl.

It was soon released into nearby bushland.

Mr Peberdy had one piece of advice for Top Enders: "Look before you sit!"

A coiler in the lou

Very impressive!!!!!!!!!!




Hahahahaha...even the colloquial english is funny!!!!!

Thanks!...but Really..it was just a shi++y pun.

Hahahaha...I like the bit about he's learned to put the toilet seat DOWN!!!!!!


(bet a woman kept putting the python in there...)

Oh...I dare not.

he needed water.... next time fill a tub or baby pool up upside.....and close the door and lid on the lou!

If those things are anything like rattlesnakes...the guy should have eaten it! Plus at that size..he could have had enough skin for a pair of boots, belt and a full sized jacket!