Rude awakening! Man stumbles to his bathroom half-asleep to find a two-metre long snake named Sir Longbottom curled up inside his toilet
- Robert Bregnsdal, 32, found the two-metre long carpet python inside a toilet
- The night club manager ran off and left the snake lurking in the toilet overnight
- A snake catcher to the rescue said the stubborn python tried to cling on
A man received the fright of his life after he discovered a two-metre long carpet python relaxing in a toilet while he was half asleep.
Robert Bregnsdal, 32, found the snake curled up at his parents’ home in Tamborine Mountain in South East Queensland at about 10am on Wednesday.
He lifted the toilet lid only find the python staring straight at him before he slammed the lid close and fled the bathroom.
Mr Bregnsdal, who has lived out of home for over a decade, was told the python named Sir Longbottom by his parents had been around for 10 years.
Robert Bregnsdal, 32, was half asleep when he found a two-metre python (pictured) curled up in a toilet
‘Then I realised I had to go back in and open the lid if I wanted to get it out,’ Mr Bregnsdal told Daily Mail Australia.
But the nightclub manager and DJ was forced to leave the python in the toilet overnight because he had to attend several work meetings.
‘So I used a towel to block the space under the door so it couldn’t get in the house.’
Mr Bregnsdal was unable to call the snake catchers until Thursday morning, who said the stubborn python tried to cling onto the toilet.
‘The snake catcher said it was using its muscles to make itself a bit bigger and hold onto the inside of the toilet,’ he said.
‘Look what rob found in the loo yesterday… don’t worry, it’ll be removed and put back in nature,’ she wrote.
Mr Bregnsdal’s mother, Tanya, said her son was ‘still recovering from shock’ after the frightening discovery.
The snake has since been released into the wild.
Stewart Lalor from Brisbane Snake Catchers told Daily Mail Australia snakes who end up in the toilets have often slithered through unsecured pipes.
‘People think pythons always want to be in the sun but they can also overheat and need to find ways to cool down,’ he said.
Snakes who end up in toilets have often slithered through unsecured pipes (pictured: stock image of a brown python)
Pythons are non-venomous snakes but their bites leave a substantial laceration and will cause a fair bit of bleeding.
The species can grow up to three metres in length, according to the Queensland museum.