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Toilet bowl snake bites man on penis

Reuters

Monday, 11 May 2009

A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as he sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported today.

"As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."

The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.

"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go," the director, who declined to be named, said. "A snake's mouth isn't always clean."

Local television images showed the black and yellow reptile, reportedly a species of rat snake, being uncoiled and plucked slowly from the toilet bowl.

Snakes regularly enter rural homes in Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.

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Copperhead.
[info]ron_broxted wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 08:42 am (UTC)
The Taiwanese tourist board will have a job convincing me to vacation there.
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Re: Copperhead.
[info]tstans wrote:
Thursday, 14 May 2009 at 04:58 am (UTC)
U need not fear Places, For me, I have made the Lord my dweling place and as a Man of God, I pick up deadly serpents with my hands. This can happen to any one, any where. The whole thing is that, How much Powers have you.
I got the power of Jesus and I can take snakes for break fast. Many years ago in 1995 I stood on a 13 Year old Viper in a Forest in Africa when I was working on the Farm. This mighty power in me kept the snake domant until I was finished with my Job.
I only realised that I had gone throw a mighty mirable when bush fire was set on that spot after i left. I saw the largest viper of my life time.
Thank you God for the Power found in Jesus.
Tebid Stanislaus
India
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tstans
[info]gerrymiah wrote:
Friday, 15 May 2009 at 10:06 am (UTC)
EKKY THUMP!
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Health and Safety Hazard,
[info]rassendyl wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 09:15 am (UTC)
Embarrassing snake attacks are quite common ocurances in ASEAN. When we lived in Singapore, a groundskeeper at a golf course, early one morning, used a Port-a-John convenience near one of the holes on the course. He did not take the precaution of looking in the bowl first and urinated on a sleeping python. The python, understandably miffed, retaliated by siezing the man by his testicles and refusing to let go. It took several colleagues and the services of a Singapore hospital before the unfortunate greenskeeper was released from the animals grip.

On another occasion, a python took to living in the sewer system of a care home and appearing from time to time from various toilet bowls to the consternation of the ageing residents. No member of staff ever saw the snake and treated the reports from their charges with a high degree of scepticism. However, finally one staff member did see the offender and started a "snake watch"; ultimately, it took eight brawny men to drag the python from one of the toilet bowls (not before it bit the leg of one of its assailants) and deposit the snake in a contractor's skip before removal to the Singapore Zoo.
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This happens
[info]xyberia44 wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 09:44 am (UTC)
when you pee like girl, if he had been peeing like a man standing up, then the snake would have been pissed on rather than pissed off, One should always remember it is better to be Pissed Off, than Pissed On.
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Re: This happens
[info]mickey_modster wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 12:11 pm (UTC)
Maybe he was having a shit?
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One-eyed water python
[info]gerrymiah wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 10:06 am (UTC)
"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go."

There's one for 'The News Quiz'!
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Re: One-eyed water python
[info]sableagle wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 07:09 pm (UTC)
If he can't go yet, he won't be passing anything, will he? O.o
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ONE EYED TROUSER SNAKE
[info]indypen wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 11:22 am (UTC)
this is real news not like that expenses rubbish you print.
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Re: ONE EYED TROUSER SNAKE
[info]longon wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 05:41 pm (UTC)


It's the expenses that are rubbish, not the reporting of them. If that's the best you can do, don't bother until you can find something sensible to write.
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Re: ONE EYED TROUSER SNAKE
[info]indypen wrote:
Monday, 11 May 2009 at 06:01 pm (UTC)
why did you look at this article then you moron. I suppose the impending split of Katie Price and Peter Andre is not news to you, but superficial celeb culture.
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Ouch!
[info]andy_yellow wrote:
Sunday, 28 June 2009 at 12:10 pm (UTC)
Just spotted this article on a friends blog and I think it's fair to say that it's like playing roulette or bingo choosing a toilet in Tawain. It reminds me of the movie Ghoulies or whatever it was called.

I'll be looking at the toilet bowl from now on, thats for certain!
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