Chris Peberdy

Peekaboo!

Ok, I know that Australia hosts something like 145% of all poisonous species that exist on the planet but never ever should I ever have to read about this happening:

An Australian man found an unpleasant surprise coiled up in his toilet – a python almost twice his size was lurking in the toilet bowl.

…Come again?

Chris Peberdy, who runs Darwin-based snake handling company Snake N.T. said, “He must have come up through a drain. He was cruising around the house at night and returning to the toilet by day.”

Apparently pythons are such a part of daily life that their movements up drainage pipes and into homes can be referred to as “cruising around”, like it was out for a Sunday stroll. You know what comes up through our drains? Nothing. There is no animal in the northern hemisphere that would choose to squeeze itself up a shit pipe. Wellllll, unless it was a gerbil, of course.

Peberdy had some sage advice for people living in that area: ‘Keep the toilet seat down and look before you sit.’

Or just move towards civilization.