Slippery surprise as python appears in Barcelona toilet

Barcelona - A python snake mysteriously appeared in a toilet bowl in a home near Barcelona in northeastern Spain at the weekend, police said on Sunday.

Police were called in overnight Saturday to collect the metre-long (yard) intruder from a house in the suburb of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

The python regius -- or ball python -- normally lives in wet environments. It had managed to slither up the pipes into the toilet bowl, said police, adding they did not know where he had come from.

Police handed the snake over to animal protection authorities. -- AFP News

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