Sometimes, kids think the weirdest stuff can happen. Try to tell em it's impossible. My god i'm glad he can't read.....
http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20889933,00.html
Sometimes, kids think the weirdest stuff can happen. Try to tell em it's impossible. My god i'm glad he can't read.....
http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20889933,00.html
Berkeley that! 
There are TOO MANY SNAKES in this motherberkeleying THRONE!
"Experts are still stumped how the reptile found its way into the toilet".
They must not be very expert in how toilets (and sewage systems) are constructed.
There are not any valves or gates that would prevent a snake from coming "upstream", and there is plenty of air in the pipe of a working sewage system for it to breath.
In fact, there are lots of bugs (and stuff) to eat. I'll bet a snake could live in a sewer line for a very long time.
Just to make y'all feel a little better! 
My nadz sucked so far up into my body reading that bit, they're now in my throat. Berk that nightmare, man.
A woman I worked with had a NYC rat come up through her toilet drain. It couldn't scrabble out of the bowl, so they put something heavy on the lid and called the super. She was still shaking when she came into work hours later.
NYC rats are puny heroin addicts compared to their Baltimore brethren, but even so, I would not want to find one in my toilet first thing in the morning.
SVreX wrote: "Experts are still stumped how the reptile found its way into the toilet". They must not be very expert in how toilets (and sewage systems) are constructed. There are not any valves or gates that would prevent a snake from coming "upstream", and there is plenty of air in the pipe of a working sewage system for it to breath. In fact, there are lots of bugs (and stuff) to eat. I'll bet a snake could live in a sewer line for a very long time. Just to make y'all feel a little better!
it would have to get past the sewer treatment plant before getting into a residential pipe if it started at the end of the line..
my guess is that it went in thru a vent pipe somewhere close to the place where it crawled out.
Never been happier to have a septic tank.
Thanks a lot. The pooper used to be my place of peace and solitude.
I'm not sure why the concern. It's just a friendly boa.
Brings new meaning to leaving a coil...
One of my uncles used to have a big ramshackle tin shop on the edge of one of his fields in south Georgia where he repaired cars, tractors, farm equipment, etc. There was a bathroom tacked on one side. One fine day after using the facilities and flushing the toilet, he noticed it didn't fill correctly. Thinking the tank float had come unhooked he leaned over and pulled the lid off the tank, only to be greeted by a tank full of pissed off rattlesnake. His reflex was to drop the tank lid and empty his .38 revolver into the tank while backing away.. He was never sure if he killed the snake, but damn sure killed the toilet.
I suppose at the last fork in the road the rattle snake took a left but the boa in the story took a right.
novaderrik wrote:SVreX wrote: "Experts are still stumped how the reptile found its way into the toilet". They must not be very expert in how toilets (and sewage systems) are constructed. There are not any valves or gates that would prevent a snake from coming "upstream", and there is plenty of air in the pipe of a working sewage system for it to breath. In fact, there are lots of bugs (and stuff) to eat. I'll bet a snake could live in a sewer line for a very long time. Just to make y'all feel a little better!it would have to get past the sewer treatment plant before getting into a residential pipe if it started at the end of the line.. my guess is that it went in thru a vent pipe somewhere close to the place where it crawled out.
Not necessarily.
Pretty much every city in the country still has sections of sanitary sewer connected to storm sewer.
They can go down a storm inlet or open manhole.
More likely, the snake was flushed by a neighbor.
Critters would never have to go through the treatment plant.
Have you ever been to SE Georgia. Ft Stuart/Hinesville to be specific.
I worked down there for 6 months. We used to find snakes in everything. Toilets, light fixtures, sinks, beds, under hoods, pretty much you name it. You never took a squat without flushing first.
Toyman01 wrote: Have you ever been to SE Georgia. Ft Stuart/Hinesville to be specific. I worked down there for 6 months.
I have. My condolences.
It's practically too cold for cockroaches up here, let alone a boa. I shall poop in confidence!
In reply to RossD:
Thanks man, I needed that. Now where did I put the latest issue of GRM?
Toyman01 wrote: Have you ever been to SE Georgia. Ft Stuart/Hinesville to be specific. I worked down there for 6 months. We used to find snakes in everything. Toilets, light fixtures, sinks, beds, under hoods, pretty much you name it. You never took a squat without flushing first.
SE Georgia = NE Florida. Yet another reason to never move down there.
And I thought Scorpions coming up the tub drain at my moms house was bad.
Snakes will do that.
We had one come up the toilet when I was younger. Mom freaked, Step-dad got it out and killed it outside.
She called the Zoo, asking about it, and did all the advise they gave. This included, Snakes do not move in pairs so another will not show up, snakes will not sit in bleach.
Within a week, another snake was in the toilet. Sitting in near pure bleach she had stocked up and would just fill the tank when she flushed, and had run through at least 5 gallons worth at that point.
It happens, the smaller was about 4 foot, the larger was 5.5 or so.
In reply to novaderrik:
Most older sewer installations have the storm drains on the same lines.
When I was growing up my great grandparents lived out in the boonies without indoor plumbing (it was the 70s) So they had an outhouse and it got visitors including a black snake which ended up taking up residence in there. They were both old farm folk so it never really bothered them much but grandma was only 4'10" so when the black snake topped 5' grandpa relented and put in an indoor craper.
Lol^
The '70's?? Is that an explanation?
I'll bet 10% or the entire county I live in still has no indoor plumbing and uses an outhouse. Am I living in the '70's??
Well, you do live in Albany..... 
BTW, the uncle I mentioned above was in Fitzgerald
SVreX wrote: Not necessarily. Pretty much every city in the country still has sections of sanitary sewer connected to storm sewer. They can go down a storm inlet or open manhole. More likely, the snake was flushed by a neighbor. Critters would never have to go through the treatment plant.
Dude, stop. Are you TRYING to get banned?
Just say it's nearly impossible and let me get some sleep again.
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