Next time you use the toilet,

watch before you sit down...

ST. PETERSBURG - It was almost 9 a.m. Tuesday and Shannon Scavotto already was running late for work when he opened the toilet to throw out a tissue.

Inside was a snake as thick as a child's wrist, its diamond-shaped head sticking 10 inches out of the toilet.

Scavotto, 30, grabbed his camera phone to call someone, then snapped a few shots of the snake with the tissue paper on its head...



Scavotto called his boss to tell him he'd be late because he'd had to wrestle a snake out of his toilet. His boss joked he would need a better excuse than that.

Scavotto told him he'd bring it in so he could see it.

And he did. His wife wouldn't let him keep it at the house, anyway...

The city's public utilities department could not be reached to comment on the regularity of such an event.

But it has happened elsewhere.

In Fort Worth, Texas, a 6-foot black water snake came out of a toilet before animal control workers arrived and moved it to a nearby lake.

Last year, a python turned up in the toilet bowl of a home in Barcelona, Spain, and an iguana climbed up the sewer pipes of a home in Sarasota and got stuck in the toilet bowel.

And in 1993 in Atlanta, a woman sat down on the toilet only to be scratched by a squirrel that had somehow arrived from the sewer...

Full Story from the St. Petersburg Times Online! :D

What would you do if that were you?? \(^o^)/