A 65-year-old man in Graz, Austria, was bitten by a python while going to the toilet. The 65-year-old said he felt anxious and sat on the toilet ring. Suddenly, he felt a pain in his lower body, stood up violently, turned around and found a python about 1.5 meters long curled up in the toilet. The python was not poisonous, but the man was still taken to the hospital, where doctors checked to see if he had been infected with bacteria in the toilet. Someone called emergency services, and a local reptile expert arrived and took the snake away from its hiding place.
The python escaped from a neighbor's house. Expert Stanley said he cleaned up the uninjured python and returned it to a 24-year-old neighbor, a reptile enthusiast. Police said the neighbor had specially designed cages and drawers in his home for raising 11 non-venomous snakes, and the escapees were one of them. The boy told the police that he did not know that the python was missing, let alone that it had entered the neighbor's apartment. It wasn't until the experts sent it back that they didn't know this guy was in trouble. How it got into a neighbor's toilet and bit people is still a mystery to this day.
Police said the snake's owner was handed over to prosecutors for inadvertently causing bodily injuries. It is unclear whether he will be charged. Animal Services considered the man's snake to be potentially dangerous.