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An Austrian man’s trip to the toilet on Monday should have been just like any other, except it turned out to be a bit of a nightmare.

Barely a moment had passed after sitting on the toilet at his home in Graz that morning when 65-year-old Walter Erhart “felt a ‘nip’ in the genital area”, according to a statement from police in Styria province.

He quickly looked into the toilet bowl to figure out the cause of this nip, only to find a 1,6-metre albino reticulated python.

You got that right – he was bitten by a snake while on the toilet.

The Guardian has more:

The snake apparently had escaped unnoticed from the apartment of the man’s 24-year-old neighbour.

It was not immediately possible to figure out how it escaped and how it got into the toilet, but police said it may have made its way through the drains.

A reptile expert was called to retrieve the snake, which was cleaned and returned to its owner.

Your reptile expert, with the snake in question:

Image: Werner Stangl/Reuters

While the victim sustained only minor injuries, the neighbour will need to face an investigation on suspicion of causing bodily harm by negligence.

Here’s poor Walter with his story:

Snakes in the toilet – maybe there’s a movie in that…

[source:guardian]