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| A Thai man was bitten by a python in a toilet at his home this week. |
(CNN) - A man in Thailand is recovering in hospital after a
python latched its fangs onto his penis while he was using his toilet earlier
this week.
Rescuers arrived to find the python's head hanging from the
bathroom door, secured by a rope, with the rest of the snake still stuck in the
squat toilet at the man's home in Chachoengsao Province, east of Bangkok.
The python was stuck in the man's squat toilet.
The man lost a lot of blood but is now recovering at
Chularat Hospital, according to hospital officials.
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| The python was stuck in the man's squat toilet. |
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| Emergency workers had to dismantle the toilet to dislodge the snake. |
Emergency workers had to dismantle the toilet to remove the
snake, which also survived the ordeal, according to rescue officer Danupol
Tapo.
Tapo, who has been working in rescue for more than six
years, said he's seen snakes in toilets before, but never witnessed a scene
quite like this one.
"This is all bizarre," he told CNN. "I had
witnessed snakes [come] out of toilets many times, and when they bit [it]
mostly would be at legs or butts. Not the penis, this is the first time."
The snake and the man both survived the ordeal.
Last year two pythons made their way into two Australian
toilets in an attempt to find water.
"They're non-venomous, these snakes," Queensland
snake catcher Elliot Budd told CNN in September. "They're not something to
fear but it's best if you come across them to leave them alone."
-CNN-
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