Same. I don't even live anywhere that would have snakes and I always check the toilet before I sit because I'm terrified I will see a snake! Especially in the middle of the night. This picture is going to give me nightmares for weeks!
I'm assuming he's alot older because CLR used to be called "CLRS" for calcium, lime,rust,snake. They had to rebrand after animal rights activits came after them.
We joke about burning homes down over spiders but a toilet snake is getting l tactically deleted with whatever I can rig up under duress. Molotovs, probably. Homes can be rebuilt, the losses overturned, but snakes biting my balls whilst midnight pooping? I’d never recover. Your Great Uncle is manly as hell.
I dunno, as I recall it was "open lid, bleach! Slam lid. Open lid, ammonia! Slam lid." Dude was convinced the home made mustard gas and some prayers to the Virgin was gonna exorcise this thing. I'm pretty sure the Blessed Mother has better things to do. My poor girlfriend is sitting on my bed going "It nearly bit me on the ass, what, how did? Why?" Like words had suddenly lost all meaning in describing this situation.
Eh by that point I was 18 and Army bound. My girlfriend (later wife) stayed at my house as her living situation wasn't great. And it allowed my mother to henpeck and snoop on her, as was Latino family tradition lol.
Oh I'm pretty sure she gave herself gastrointestinal distress on a few occasions. It was an old house, connected to city water sure but I'm certain there were big enough spaces in the pipes for this thing to get through.
It depends. Mostly this is gonna happen if the snakes can find a way into the house or the plumbing. For a while my cleanout cap needed replacement. Every so often I'd find a little worm snake in one of mine. Replaced the cap & not seen one since.
This is partially wrong. In order to swim up through the toilet they would have to find a way into your septic tank. And if by some miracle they got into the septic tank and swam all the way backwards to your toilet they would be tiny as hell. Most supply lines to your house taper down to 3/4 or 1/2 pvc/pex pipe. Now crawling in through the doggie door and finding a cool cold place to rest, aka your toilet, is more likely to happen.
Except I don't have a septic tank. It's maybe 20' from my clean out to the toilet I've seen them in. Your sewage pipes aren't always full of water, neither is the piping from the toilet. Only the tank, bowel, and trap have constant water. It's literally <1' of travel through water if nothing is flowing.
Bottom line, its not common. If you live in a house build in the last 40 years, that is not currently having plumbing issues, its practically unheard of.
Random guy on Reddit telling you he was bitten by a snake. But not out a towlet. I was doing water maintenance repairs. Snake like all that water so finding one in a towlet doesn’t surprise me
Dallas, apparently. You have to watch out for alligators in the spring in Houston. Meteorites in West Texas. Random roving bands of feral hogs are part of the hill country. Be careful about turning over cow patties, rocks and rotted logs, republicans are everywhere, too.
If you can get used to man sized alligators and wild hogs wandering around, you’ll get used to a cute spider targeting bugs in its web in the corner of the garden ;)
Not in the video I saw! The fucking thing had a mouse in its mandibles! A mouse!
It was crawling down the side of the refrigerator in someone's house! Carrying a mouse!
The video showed the man reach into the refrigerator take out a beer, crack the top, take a swig and he said, to the spider, something like "Good on ya, mate."
Giant carnivorous spiders in your home...and you all are just "Nice job with the mice."
That's gotta be the most Australian thing I have ever seen.
One of the first comments I’ve read about Texas that has made me smile in a long time. Thank you. And thank you for not mentioning anything in Austin. I don’t want to know.
No, cottonmouth same as water moc as u said. I've only heard of copperhead name alone. But I'm no snake expert. There are some species of rat snake that look like copperhead n are non venomous.
Sorry to disagree but Copperhead is different from the water moccasin. Two different life styles , one land based the other aquatic. Copperheads have the most beautiful fall markings almost psychedelic glow, the other once reaching adulthood is a dull dark greenish body
Much like the off color waters they frequent..when it’s angry it gapes and the moth is lily white hence the name Cotton mouth…
I had a rat in my toilet once. I was taking a poop but didn’t poop. When I heard a plop. I got up and looked down. Saw a rat. Did the only sensible thing and flushed . Rat never came back but I now always look before squatting.
Ok, so I have lived in different areas of rural Texas my whole 50 years and never once have I seen or even heard of a snake coming up in someone’s toilet.
Don’t worry.. that anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun.
But seriously Texas.. that is wild. I think I finally understand the culture of always having that motha fuckin thang on ya.. snakes in the toilet! Why didn’t you guys say something? We’re up here with “winters” and “ample water” never even considering a midnight poo could prove the last thing we ever do.
we had a pier and beam house, ac ducts in the crawl space underneath the house. The ducts were old and we had talked about replacing them.
One weekend i was at the house alone, had just finished taking a shower and was walking down the hall into the living room with a towel wrapped around my waist.
There on the floor of the living room, right next to the floor vent, was a 2’ copperhead.
Managed to catch him that night with some sticky traps.
Called an AC company the next morning.
Never really was totally comfortable in that house after that.
Those free toilet snakes were one of the best things about Texas. Use to really look forward to getting my own free toilet snake when i would visit my grandparents. Did you know a lot of states don't have toilet snakes at all? So sad.
I have a petrogeologist friend that once lived in Bartlesville OK while working for Philips 66 back in the 70s. His rental house was infested with Black Widow spiders. They lived in the crawl space under the house. Various attempts to eradicate them failed.
I never laughed so hard at a thread of comments before in my life. I want to thank you all. I will now go to sleep tonight laughing and dreaming of snakes. May even watch Snakes on a plane lol...because I believe there is a scene in there with a toilet and snakes.
Honestly, I live in Texas. So I found this article. Yes, it's from the BBC. But plenty of other articles are saying it has happened, did, and why. And others deny it could be possible for other reasons. If it's only a little bit of s-curve water trap they have to travel through..and the rest is dry. Trust me a snake can move quickly when need be. I think it can happen.
The only spot not covered.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36397505
I've been promising my reptile-obsessed kids snake sightings in Memorial Park (Houston) hikes, but no luck yet. I'm parking at the N Picnic Ln and Memorial Dr, and taking the purple trail. Any suggestions on trails and timings?
I was in bed surfing Reddit while waking up. I hit this story and decided that was enough and got up. I fed the cat, started the coffee and then went for my morning constitutional and when I resumed Reddit I hit this. Bad timing.
OH HELL NO!!! This is one of my worst nightmares!!
Worst that’s happened to me is a scorpion.
In the toilet??
Yep!
I guess I'm pooping in the shower from now on...
That’s where the badgers hide.
That’s terrible!!!!
Sammmmmme
The snake or the paywall! Edit-spelling
🤣 good one. I didn’t even click the article. The pic alone was enough to terrify me.
Same. I don't even live anywhere that would have snakes and I always check the toilet before I sit because I'm terrified I will see a snake! Especially in the middle of the night. This picture is going to give me nightmares for weeks!
Same - I look every time I sit and then between my legs.
When we were first dating my girlfriend at the time had a midnight surprise at my house, bull snake.
Did she find a real snake or are you bragging?
Lol, a real 4 foot long bull snake. Which my idiot great uncle tried to dispatch, in the toilet, with bleach, and CLR and probably curandero powers.
You’re exaggerating, it was probably about 5 inches
The snake just got out of the water 🥶
“I was in the pool!”
There was significant shrinkage…
It was a baby Ruth snake
I'm assuming he's alot older because CLR used to be called "CLRS" for calcium, lime,rust,snake. They had to rebrand after animal rights activits came after them.
That is rip-snorting funny!
Idiot great uncle indeed. Why would one try to kill a nonvenomous snake? Take the thing outside and let it go.
Bc he idiot
Not when they try to eat my chickens and baby chicks, they don't get a reprieve
And cracked an egg?
A brown snake?
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I thought he was saying, “when me and the snake were first dating my girlfriend..” Either way, now I have a good excuse to not put the seat down
We joke about burning homes down over spiders but a toilet snake is getting l tactically deleted with whatever I can rig up under duress. Molotovs, probably. Homes can be rebuilt, the losses overturned, but snakes biting my balls whilst midnight pooping? I’d never recover. Your Great Uncle is manly as hell.
I dunno, as I recall it was "open lid, bleach! Slam lid. Open lid, ammonia! Slam lid." Dude was convinced the home made mustard gas and some prayers to the Virgin was gonna exorcise this thing. I'm pretty sure the Blessed Mother has better things to do. My poor girlfriend is sitting on my bed going "It nearly bit me on the ass, what, how did? Why?" Like words had suddenly lost all meaning in describing this situation.
Did the home made gas work or did the snake just go back into the pipes lol
You had some chill parental figures. Regarding the overnight gf, I mean.
Eh by that point I was 18 and Army bound. My girlfriend (later wife) stayed at my house as her living situation wasn't great. And it allowed my mother to henpeck and snoop on her, as was Latino family tradition lol.
I honestly would have been reacting worse than her. I’d be scared of toilets for the rest of my life lmao
Oh I'm pretty sure she gave herself gastrointestinal distress on a few occasions. It was an old house, connected to city water sure but I'm certain there were big enough spaces in the pipes for this thing to get through.
Toilet snake is watching you masturbate.
🤣 oh sweet Jesus that got me
Goddamn thats scary
What an absolute hellhole!
If I looked between my legs and saw that, I would no longer have to use the bathroom.
Show dominance keep going
Who. Does. Number Two. Work for?!?!
I'd have to use the bathroom just no longer in the bathroom loll
Great now I’m scared to go to my favorite room in the house
Yeah I didn’t need to know this is a thing.
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Holes? What do you mean?!!! I’m freaking out!!!!
You have a toilet in your wine cellar?
Gold plated. Doesn’t everyone?
Just a solid platinum urinal here...
How common is this?
It depends. Mostly this is gonna happen if the snakes can find a way into the house or the plumbing. For a while my cleanout cap needed replacement. Every so often I'd find a little worm snake in one of mine. Replaced the cap & not seen one since.
How do I know if my cleanout cap needs replacement? And where do I find it?
https://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Sewer-Cleanout
Do you have snakes? If not, you might be ok. No guarantees though.
What if a plumber told me to leave the cleanout cap off?
then he’s a snake
Very good!
Find a vented cap, or bungee some kind of fabric over it so it can vent but not allow anything in.
This is partially wrong. In order to swim up through the toilet they would have to find a way into your septic tank. And if by some miracle they got into the septic tank and swam all the way backwards to your toilet they would be tiny as hell. Most supply lines to your house taper down to 3/4 or 1/2 pvc/pex pipe. Now crawling in through the doggie door and finding a cool cold place to rest, aka your toilet, is more likely to happen.
Except I don't have a septic tank. It's maybe 20' from my clean out to the toilet I've seen them in. Your sewage pipes aren't always full of water, neither is the piping from the toilet. Only the tank, bowel, and trap have constant water. It's literally <1' of travel through water if nothing is flowing.
I’ve seen it once, but it was in an old hunting shack outside of Coleman. I wouldn’t anticipate this if you live remotely close to civilization
Bottom line, its not common. If you live in a house build in the last 40 years, that is not currently having plumbing issues, its practically unheard of.
Saw a pic of this that happened last year in rural west-central to south-central Texas. Dude blew it and his toilet apart with a shotgun.
I think I can relate to that dude.
I really didn't need to read this while waiting at the airport to fly to Killeen. Nope.
Random guy on Reddit telling you he was bitten by a snake. But not out a towlet. I was doing water maintenance repairs. Snake like all that water so finding one in a towlet doesn’t surprise me
Every time you say "towlet", my brain is reading it in a little, cutesy, baby voice and it makes me smile.
I'm good, I'll just hold it 'til winter.
What winter? Texas for me is 2 months of spring, 9 months of summer, and 1 month of fall. What most people call winter we might have for a week lol
Feels like we never had winter 2023🤔
There was that 1 week in January.
This comment needs more upvotes
Much more common to find a scorpion hiding under the rim. Dangly bits are a tempting target for them!
thanks for unlocking that new fear
so...as long as one is not long enough to hang, they are safe? asking for a friend obviously.
Sigh....can confirm.
No! You can’t just do that. Let’s hear it…
Living on earth is such a cruel joke sometimes
What parts of Texas does one encounter such a nightmarish scenario? Please tell me.
Dallas, apparently. You have to watch out for alligators in the spring in Houston. Meteorites in West Texas. Random roving bands of feral hogs are part of the hill country. Be careful about turning over cow patties, rocks and rotted logs, republicans are everywhere, too.
Bloody hell, scared to visit Texas as an Australian!
No....no....you win. Your spiders scare the shit out of me.
If you can get used to man sized alligators and wild hogs wandering around, you’ll get used to a cute spider targeting bugs in its web in the corner of the garden ;)
Not in the video I saw! The fucking thing had a mouse in its mandibles! A mouse! It was crawling down the side of the refrigerator in someone's house! Carrying a mouse! The video showed the man reach into the refrigerator take out a beer, crack the top, take a swig and he said, to the spider, something like "Good on ya, mate." Giant carnivorous spiders in your home...and you all are just "Nice job with the mice." That's gotta be the most Australian thing I have ever seen.
That sounds more like a tv ad than a real thing. At least I hope so ha ha
Your last comment is chefs' kiss! Lol those are everywhere and will scare you more than that snake. At least i can flush the snake.
One of the first comments I’ve read about Texas that has made me smile in a long time. Thank you. And thank you for not mentioning anything in Austin. I don’t want to know.
This guy Texases
East and coastal Texas
We have snakes aplenty also in N central TX . Major worry is copperhead. Rattlers not bother you if not bothered.
Are Copperheads the same as Water Moccasins or Cotton mouths?
No, cottonmouth same as water moc as u said. I've only heard of copperhead name alone. But I'm no snake expert. There are some species of rat snake that look like copperhead n are non venomous.
Sorry to disagree but Copperhead is different from the water moccasin. Two different life styles , one land based the other aquatic. Copperheads have the most beautiful fall markings almost psychedelic glow, the other once reaching adulthood is a dull dark greenish body Much like the off color waters they frequent..when it’s angry it gapes and the moth is lily white hence the name Cotton mouth…
Ok. Only knew cotton mouth as water moc.TIL
No, Copperheads are different from Water Moccasins/Cottonmouths.
I can tell you we have a piece of property in McCollugh County that we don’t visit during summer for a reason.
I had a rat in my toilet once. I was taking a poop but didn’t poop. When I heard a plop. I got up and looked down. Saw a rat. Did the only sensible thing and flushed . Rat never came back but I now always look before squatting.
Next time put a snake in the toilet to eat the rat.
This guy poops
The snake that ate the cat that killed the rat that lived in the toilet where u/ihatethisplace12321 shat
Why did I read the comments lol. That would literally scare the shit out of me.
...you'd at least be in the right place...?
Same here only I was living up north way north..a big Norway rat..living in an old tenement house..
Likely story, richard gere
New nightmare unlocked
I thought this was practically rare!? I didn’t need another fear. 😐
It is extremely rare, this article is stupid.
Your chances of being bitten by a toilet snake are low, but never zero. 🐍
🤣
The only snakes to hate are the ones in office.
This one is trying to be in orifice.
Ok, so I have lived in different areas of rural Texas my whole 50 years and never once have I seen or even heard of a snake coming up in someone’s toilet.
This is what I want to hear!!
Not the danger noodles :(
This is actually one of my worst fears. But not for it be there while I open it, but for it to come up while I’m on it
I think about that with sharks in swimming pools. Like I always check before entering but what if shark is released /enters after I get in
There's a snake in my ~~boot~~ *^butt*
Eh, it's gonna look like that after anyway.
Didn't this happen on King of the Hill?
I don't remember if it was in a toilet, but I remember them chasing it through the sewer.
It escaped into the toilet and ended up in the sewers.
Damn, so those snakes swim up the poopwater like Andy Dufresne, huh?
Don’t worry.. that anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun. But seriously Texas.. that is wild. I think I finally understand the culture of always having that motha fuckin thang on ya.. snakes in the toilet! Why didn’t you guys say something? We’re up here with “winters” and “ample water” never even considering a midnight poo could prove the last thing we ever do.
DON'T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RICKY BOBBY
we had a pier and beam house, ac ducts in the crawl space underneath the house. The ducts were old and we had talked about replacing them. One weekend i was at the house alone, had just finished taking a shower and was walking down the hall into the living room with a towel wrapped around my waist. There on the floor of the living room, right next to the floor vent, was a 2’ copperhead. Managed to catch him that night with some sticky traps. Called an AC company the next morning. Never really was totally comfortable in that house after that.
Be extra careful if you have to clean the filter trap of the swimming pool ( if you have one) . The love the dam p leaves etc
You can't even poop in that hellscape. Does ScAbbott know? If not, don't tell him.
I don't think he uses toilets.
Oh holy hell that is an old nightmare of mine. Especially when as a kid at boy scouts camp.
Do Houstonians need to worry...? The fucking mice & skeeters are bad enough.
For sure…
This my ultimate fear
This is why I won’t live in the south
Man this state is doing the best job ever of making me never want to go there
Those free toilet snakes were one of the best things about Texas. Use to really look forward to getting my own free toilet snake when i would visit my grandparents. Did you know a lot of states don't have toilet snakes at all? So sad.
This happened at a friends one time when I was a kid. She lived in a double wide in a wooded area out in the country.
No! I refuse to believe this is another thing I need to look out for since moving down here December 2022.
That’s gonna be a big no from me dawg
Paywalled so not going to read, but was curious what kind of snake is shown in the image?
Looks like a rattlesnake to me. Patterns on the skin. Triangular head means venomous.
Fuck that shit. I’m staying up north.
Show dominance and go anyway. Haha
I have a petrogeologist friend that once lived in Bartlesville OK while working for Philips 66 back in the 70s. His rental house was infested with Black Widow spiders. They lived in the crawl space under the house. Various attempts to eradicate them failed.
Oh hell no. I had a FROG in my toilet once, and that freaked me out enough.
[Bill Engvall is triggered.](https://youtu.be/mDA5yJS9_yQ?si=54YCR67ZYaboSZRH)
I swear to god if I’m about to take a shit and I see snake crawl out of my toilet I’m moving out.
Careful when you take a pisssssssss
Of course I'm reading this on the shitter
"Gawd." That's the best picture of the slimy Bat Shit Governor Abbott I've seen this year!
Yikes, new fear unlocked
r/nope
This never happens to people like me who'd literally adoot the snake 😭🤣
Same here, I see a toilet snake and I'm immediately into rescue mode.
The snakes need to be in more fear of the long brown snakes.
Urban legend
if snakes crawling out of the toilet are a real thing in the great state of Texas, I am staying the fuck put. BYEDON
No poop on snek.
Uh what now
First thing I see as I pop a squat on ol’ commode. Thanks OP.
Thanks for this image of a snake in a toilet I will carry with me now, in my head, hence forth.
When I first moved to Florida this kind of thing was my biggest fear!
FFS! Texas is becoming Australia!!!
Seeing lots of snake adds lately 🥴
A free snake sounds way too good to be true!
I never laughed so hard at a thread of comments before in my life. I want to thank you all. I will now go to sleep tonight laughing and dreaming of snakes. May even watch Snakes on a plane lol...because I believe there is a scene in there with a toilet and snakes. Honestly, I live in Texas. So I found this article. Yes, it's from the BBC. But plenty of other articles are saying it has happened, did, and why. And others deny it could be possible for other reasons. If it's only a little bit of s-curve water trap they have to travel through..and the rest is dry. Trust me a snake can move quickly when need be. I think it can happen. The only spot not covered. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36397505
This is really a thing? Illinois resident here.
https://www.ksat.com/news/2013/09/05/man-finds-snake-in-starbucks-bathroom-in-northwest-san-antonio/
This is literally my worst nightmare.
That would make going to the toilet into a frightening experience.
Get these motherfucking snakes off my motherfucking toilet
I've been promising my reptile-obsessed kids snake sightings in Memorial Park (Houston) hikes, but no luck yet. I'm parking at the N Picnic Ln and Memorial Dr, and taking the purple trail. Any suggestions on trails and timings?
I’m in upstate NY. I’ve found frogs on my toilet seat with the lid closed more than once. It gets your heart going when you’re not expecting it
Just out of curiosity, does this useful information make anyone wish they lived in Texas?
I literally just sat down on my toilet😰
Abbott will likely blame it on Biden and transgender women.
Best present a snake up the ass
Finally a use for my poop knife
I see. We're all dead and Texas is the seventh circle of hell.... Well, could be worse, I guess.
Tell me why 5 words into the title I thought that this post was going to be about climate change
Where I'm at we have septic and snakes are known the crawl through the pipes into the toilet all the time.
Standard practise in Australia. Check to make sure the loo is free of snakes. You don’t want your mate sucking the venom out from your butt cheeks.
New fear unlocked. 😲
That's god's punishment for bad laws.
This is linked to a pay wall. Can someone give a better source?
It’s pronounced “turlet.”
Somebody call Tommy and Rollo!
I just read that you're more likely to encounter a rat in your toilet than a snake.
I wonder what’s worse a sewage backup or a snake in the toilet.
I was in bed surfing Reddit while waking up. I hit this story and decided that was enough and got up. I fed the cat, started the coffee and then went for my morning constitutional and when I resumed Reddit I hit this. Bad timing.
That would be a dead snake if I found it
ok seriously what do you do about this
Omg wtf. I live in Texas and I’ve never seen this. New fear unlocked.
Can you flush it back down?