Unusual: a woman in central Thailand fights a snake that emerged from her toilet

by Pierre To 11 February 2023

By Pierre To 11 February 2023 3 minutes to read

In Thailand, an ordinary visit to the toilet can turn into a nightmare. Here is the testimony of a woman who had to fight a snake to save her life in the toilet.

"We all think it's something that will never happen to us, I thought that was the case too until it happened in my own home.

How can a snake of this size get into the toilet?

Let me tell you what happened to Anna, my mother.

She went to the toilet as usual.

Our house is a village, not in the forest or the middle of nowhere.

The snake bit my mother while she was sitting on the toilet.

It seems that neither party gave up until both were bleeding and had to go to the hospital (or vet).

The incident was shared by the victim's daughter on Facebook.

The girl published the photos to prove that it was not a "horror movie plot".

"My mother grabbed his head and tried to pull it off his body.

The snake wouldn't let go. It started to wrap itself around my mother, squeezing tighter and tighter.

"My mother tried to grab the head but she wouldn't let go and her wound started to grow.

It was like she had been stabbed. She called my brother, who was scared of the snake and just handed my mother a box cutter."

My mother used the cutter on the snake but the skin was so rough that it accidentally cut about 3 centimetres deep.

My mother almost lost the cutter as the snake continued to wrap itself around her.

That's when my mother thought of my grandmother.

"I don't know how, but my mother finally got the snake to stop biting her.

She pushed her head to the ground and screamed for my brother to give her a hammer.

After a few strokes, the snake finally stopped squeezing.

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My brother took it out of the toilet and locked the snake inside.

A local team of volunteers came to recover the snake.

The father took his wife to hospital and she received stitches from the snake bite and self-inflicted wounds from the cutter.

"My mother is so brave, I would have fainted in the toilet.

I have learned to always inspect the toilet before using it even if it seems impossible that a snake is in it.

The problem is that as the snake is usually hidden in the pipework, it is impossible to see it beforehand.

The man whose sex was bitten by a pythonThe women, like this woman, did not see anything wrong until the snake emerged from inside the toilet to attack them!

The snake in the photo appears to be a Reticulated python.