VIENNA — An Austrian had the kind of morning that nightmares are made of on Monday when a python slid through his drains and bit him while he was sitting on the toilet.
The stunned 65-year-old in the city of Graz turned around shortly after 6 a.m. to see a roughly 1.6-meter (5-foot) albino reticulated python in the bowl, police in the province of Styria said in a statement.
“Shortly after he sat on the toilet the Graz resident—by his own account—felt a ‘pinch’ in the area of his genitals,” the police statement said.
The snake, a constrictor native to Asia that can grow to more than 9 meters (29 feet) long, is thought to have escaped a neighbor’s apartment unnoticed and sli…
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