VISITOR WITH NO ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN THE BATHROOM

Terrified New Hampshire woman finds enormous python in her toilet

 

By Alexa Cimino   

 

Daily Mail

Jul 29, 2025

 

 

A five-foot ball python was found in a woman’s bathroom in New Hampshire 

 

A New Hampshire woman had a terrifying surprise this week when she walked into her bathroom and found a five-foot-long python making itself at home.

The incident unfolded on Monday inside an apartment in Derry, prompting the resident to immediately call police for help. 

Responding officers located the massive ball python in the bathroom and managed to safely capture it in a plastic tote.

While the python was described by police as 'docile, friendly, and clearly someone's pet,' they admitted it was an unnerving experience for several officers.

Authorities canvassed neighboring units in an attempt to identify the owner.

The python was handed off to Derry Animal Control, then transferred to a humane society that handles exotic animals, before being reunited with its owner.

One neighbor, Chuck Van Coppenolle, who lives directly below the unit where the python was found, told WMUR he was rattled by the discovery.

'I'd be definitely scared of that. A snake like that — I don't even like the little ones, never mind the big ones like that,' he said.

 

The snake was spotted slithering around the base of the toilet in a Derry apartment

 

A cat owner, Van Coppenolle feared for his pet's safety. 

He said: '[The police] wanted to make sure before they did anything that it wasn't my pet. First of all, I wouldn't have any snake as a pet, and I definitely wouldn't have a python.

'Even if it's friendly, it can cause a lot of problems. I'm glad they got rid of it.'

Authorities are still unsure how the animal got into the apartment - but snake expert Kevin McCurley, who owns New England Reptile Distributors in Plaistow, said the plumbing may be to blame.

'It's a possibility that that ball python could actually go down the toilet, go down into the waterways, so it only has to hold its breath for a little period of time,' he told WMUR.

The python in question is a ball python, one of the most common pet snakes, according to RodentPro.

These non-venomous constrictors typically reach three to five feet in length and are known for their calm and gentle nature.

Snakes appearing in toilets may sound like a nightmare scenario, but it happens more often than you'd think - especially in the southern US.

In December, a woman in Texas was bitten after unknowingly sitting on a toilet where a snake was hiding. 

Just one month earlier, another woman in South Carolina found a python coiled behind her toilet, sending her fleeing from the bathroom.

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Texas woman injured after being bitten by creature hiding in her toilet

 

By Bethan Sexton

 

Daily Mail

Dec 20, 2024

 

A Texas mom has shared her terror after she sat on her toilet seat and was bitten by a snake nesting underneath

 

A Texas woman has shared her terror after she sat on her toilet seat and was bitten by a snake nesting underneath.

Maria Jaimes, from Bastrop, had wandered into her bathroom early on Sunday without bothering to flip on her lights.

As she sat down she recalled feeling a 'poking' sensation on her leg and assumed her husband had left something on the seat.

But as she turned on the lights, she was horrified to discover the creature coiled under the toilet.

Despite her terror she managed to snap a picture showing the rat snake poking out.

'Very scary situation on a Sunday morning at 4:30 a.m. with lights off,' she told KXAN.

'As scared as I was when this happened, I am the one who took these pictures because no one would believe it.'

Jaimes said she thinks the snake might have crawled into her bathroom through a vent which she has not boarded up with wire.

'I just want people to be aware this happens in real life and to be aware,' she added.

However, Alan Brown, technical director at ABC Home and Commercial Services, said such occurrences are rare.

'Snakes coming up in the toilet is an infrequent occurrence,' he said.

 'In 25 years of pest control, I have never dealt directly with it or have anybody that I know of deal with it.

'It is something if you do an internet search, you will find there are occurrences. I think it's more of an urban legend most of the time but it does happen.' 

He warned that snakes can still make their way inside via the vent stack on a roof or by swimming up through sewage lines.

 'In some cases, they just make their way into a house traditionally, through a crack or a crevice. Or [they] make their way in and are looking for water and curl up in a toilet, as well,' he added.

 

The creature was lurking under the toilet seat when Maria Jaimes went to use the restroom in the early hours of Sunday

Jaimes, from Bastrop, described feeling a 'poking' on her leg as she sat down

 

Texas rat snakes are subspecies of western rat snakes, a nonvenomous species of Colubridae found in central North America. 

They usually grow up to six feet in length, but have been known to grow as long as eight and a half feet.

They are typically found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.