12 Foot Python in TX bathroom

[gpw]

HELL FUCKING NO.  This one is for you, NewOrleans.

Link.



COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A 12-foot python has been returned to its owner after a slithery stop at a Central Texas home where a woman earlier bathed her pet guinea pigs.



The Eagle newspaper reported Tuesday that Veronica Rodriguez was shocked in early May when the big snake turned up in her bathroom.



Police believe the African python slipped into the house when Rodriguez left the back door open after bathing her three household guinea pigs and putting the critters in outdoor pens.



Rodriguez says she heard strange noises, returned to the bathroom and discovered the snake crawling into the tub. She called 911.



College Station police and animal control officers removed the snake, using a city trash can as a temporary receptacle for the reptile.



No guinea pigs were harmed.

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Who the fuck bathes a Guinea pig?

[mominatrix]

Not to be all... Whatever... But ball pythons are REALLY harmless and REALLY non - aggressive.

Hell, they're called BALL pythons because they curl up into a ball whenever they're freaked out or threatened.


Yes, big snake is freaky... But this snake is harmless.

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[pinkeggs]

May 14, 2014 22:43:37 GMT -5 @hayworth said:

Who the fuck bathes a Guinea pig?

THAT is what you take from this?! lol

[emilyj]

[decemberwedding07]

May 14, 2014 22:57:58 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

Not to be all... Whatever... But ball pythons are REALLY harmless and REALLY non - aggressive.

Hell, they're called BALL pythons because they curl up into a ball whenever they're freaked out or threatened.


Yes, big snake is freaky... But this snake is harmless.

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I would freak out, but only because is be worried for my cats. Once I located them and confirmed they hadn't been eaten, I would be ok.

[Michelle]

May 14, 2014 22:28:10 GMT -5 gpw said:

HELL FUCKING NO.  This one is for you, NewOrleans.

Link.



COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A 12-foot python has been returned to its owner after a slithery stop at a Central Texas home where a woman earlier bathed her pet guinea pigs.



The Eagle newspaper reported Tuesday that Veronica Rodriguez was shocked in early May when the big snake turned up in her bathroom.



Police believe the African python slipped into the house when Rodriguez left the back door open after bathing her three household guinea pigs and putting the critters in outdoor pens.



Rodriguez says she heard strange noises, returned to the bathroom and discovered the snake crawling into the tub. She called 911.



College Station police and animal control officers removed the snake, using a city trash can as a temporary receptacle for the reptile.



No guinea pigs were harmed.

when I read about this from another news source, it wasn't called a Ball python.  In fact the original owner had lost it while moving, and according to state law reported it missing.  You have to have a permit to have this kind of snake in Texas.  The owner did, so he got his snake back actually.

I do still think it is mostly harmless but not as much as you describe the ball python to be.

[Michelle]

oops - post above was supposed to quote @josh wheadon's bitch

[wawa]

Random...but when I lost my snake (ball python) the advice on the internet was to find someone with guinea pig and make a trail of scent back to the cage. They apparently LOVE eating them. Not that my snake was big enough to handle one of those. so color me surprised that the lil pigs didn't get et.

We found her in the back yard btw. In case anybody was curious.

[IIOY]

Let's not be blasé about discovering a 12-foot snake in your bathroom. You have no reason to know whether it's harmless and my god, it's a 12-foot snake! I'd be terrified to find a 12-foot anything in my bathroom that didn't belong there.

12-foot fuzzy bunny. NO

12-foot pile of cotton. NO

12-foot pile of chocolate. Well, maybe.

[secretlyevil]

New board rule, no more fucking snakes in the bathroom stories. You suck.

[ttt]

May 14, 2014 22:57:58 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

Not to be all... Whatever... But ball pythons are REALLY harmless and REALLY non - aggressive.

Hell, they're called BALL pythons because they curl up into a ball whenever they're freaked out or threatened.


Yes, big snake is freaky... But this snake is harmless.

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Not harmless to your guinea pigs! 

[ttt]

And I personally don't have a problem with snakes - I think they're pretty cool and they don't generally bother me. But I would freak the eff out if I found a giant snake in my bathroom.

[CallingAllAngels]

May 14, 2014 22:43:37 GMT -5 @hayworth said:

Who the fuck bathes a Guinea pig?

I actually read a book with my kids a couple days ago that talked about how guinea pigs really like taking baths.

I'm just going to ignore the part about the 12-foot python.

[secretlyevil]

And now I'm checking every corner in my bathroom before showering.

[RoxMonster]

Noooooope. I don't care how harmless it is, if I walk in my bathroom and find a freakin' 12 foot snake in there, I'm getting the hell out of dodge.

[decemberwedding07]

I think the fuzzy green toilet lid cover is the most horrifying part of this. People, those things are bacteria factories! Why??? They aren't necessary!

[Deleted]

I have just found another advantage to living in Canada.

[gpw]

May 15, 2014 5:18:00 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Let's not be blasé about discovering a 12-foot snake in your bathroom. You have no reason to know whether it's harmless and my god, it's a 12-foot snake! I'd be terrified to find a 12-foot anything in my bathroom that didn't belong there.

12-foot fuzzy bunny. NO

12-foot pile of cotton. NO

12-foot pile of chocolate. Well, maybe.

THANK YOU!  I am all   FUCK NO about people and their "whatever, whatever!  It's a ball python!  Nothing to see here, people!"

[redheadbaker]

Considering I wouldn't be able to visually identify it as a harmless giant effing snake instead of a man eating giant effing snake, I'd be leaving skid marks in my haste to get the fuck out of my house.

[mominatrix]

May 15, 2014 0:44:29 GMT -5 Michelle said:

May 14, 2014 22:28:10 GMT -5 gpw said:

when I read about this from another news source, it wasn't called a Ball python.  In fact the original owner had lost it while moving, and according to state law reported it missing.  You have to have a permit to have this kind of snake in Texas.  The owner did, so he got his snake back actually.

I do still think it is mostly harmless but not as much as you describe the ball python to be.

from the picture it looks like a Ball Python, but an enormous one (we had a 6' one, and friends of ours have several)


Wiki talks about the Ball thing, and how they're also called Royal Pythons, because rulers in their native African regions used to wear them as jewelry... which I didn't know... but I did used to put ours around my neck on occasion, until I learned the hard way not to do so when wearing hoop earrings (she didn't damage my ears, but did mess up my hoops!)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_regius

[NewOrleans]

May 14, 2014 22:28:10 GMT -5 gpw said:

HELL FUCKING NO.  This one is for you, NewOrleans.

At least the one I posted didn't have a picture! 

[sunterp]

May 15, 2014 5:18:00 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Let's not be blasé about discovering a 12-foot snake in your bathroom. You have no reason to know whether it's harmless and my god, it's a 12-foot snake! I'd be terrified to find a 12-foot anything in my bathroom that didn't belong there.

12-foot fuzzy bunny. NO

12-foot pile of cotton. NO

12-foot pile of chocolate. Well, maybe.

See a 12-foot pile of chocolate in my bathroom would get a side eye but in my kitchen it might be a maybe.

[elleblue]

May 14, 2014 22:57:58 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

Not to be all... Whatever... But ball pythons are REALLY harmless and REALLY non - aggressive.

Hell, they're called BALL pythons because they curl up into a ball whenever they're freaked out or threatened.


Yes, big snake is freaky... But this snake is harmless.

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Yeah, I know I'm a huge softie but all the snake hate makes me sad. Well except for biting toilet snake, that was messed up. 

[secretlyevil]

I don't hate snakes. I just avoid them like the plague. I feel like if I don't mess with them, they aren't going to mess with me. That seems more like a mutual respect thing.

Now roaches and well any bugs for that matter...stay out of my house or all bets are off.

[secretlyevil]

Oh and I fully admit to be a wimp when it comes to all things creepy and crawly.

[sicilygirl]

Well fuck. This is in my town.