TUCSON, ARIZONA (AP) – Like a scene out of a horror movie, Michelle Lespron returned to her Tucson, Arizona, home to find a snake had set up camp in her toilet. “I’d been gone for four days and was looking forward to using my own restroom in peace. I lifted up the lid and he or she was curled up,” Lespron told The Associated Press.
The hiss-sterical encounter happened on July 15. But Lespron has been getting messages from family, friends and even people she went to high school with since Rattlesnake Solutions, a Phoenix-based company that removed the snake, recently posted an employee’s video. The 20-second video shows the snake being pulled out of the toilet bowl and then hissing straight at the camera.
Lespron said her father tried to wrangle the snake that same night but it slithered away. So, she called Rattlesnake Solutions the next morning. It took the handler – who Lespron calls “my hero” – three tries to get the black and pink coachwhip snake firmly in his grasp. He was able to wrestle the snake with one hand while capturing it all on his cellphone with the other.
The handler later released the snake, which measured between one metre and 1.2 metre long, in a natural habitat elsewhere.
