Woman finds 20ft long python sleeping in her toilet

Chalida Thawephol, 37, spotted the snake's tail after her five-year-old son went to the bathroom and told her there was ‘’something strange’’ inside.

The mother-of-two went to investigate - then ran out screaming at the hideous sight of the super-size serpent.

She called rescuers who arrived and dragged the enormous reptile out of her milk shop into the road.

They wrestled the beast into a canvas bag - before putting a penny in a set of digital scales outside a 7/11 store to weigh it. But the animal was too big to fit on the device and was moved onto a set of rusty old scales where it read 29.7kg.

Chalida said her son first went into the bathroom and saw the snake and told her but she didn’t believe him - until she checked herself.

When I was in the Army I was first stationed on Flamenco Island which was the third and outermost island off Ft. Amadore and connected to the mainland by a causeway.

One day a buddy and I decided to explore the shoreline perimeter of the second island, Perico Island, and no sooner did we start out that I saw a baby boa about 30" long. When my buddy tried to pick it up, it bit him in the hand.......boy did he freak out! He thought he was going to die of poisoning.......LOL!

Growing up in northern Michigan I always had fascination for reptiles and amphibians and I knew what kind of a snake it was. But for my buddy, I think he was from New York and that was likely the first wild snake he had ever seen. Pretty stupid for him to pick it up with his lack of knowledge..........

So I am proud to say that I have never met anybody who actually caught or saw a boa constrictor in the wild......

With that being said, there was a boa on our island that guys claimed to have seen crossing the road that wound to the top of the island and it allegedly stretched from one side of the road to the other....Maybe an exaggeration, maybe close to the truth, I really don't know since I never saw it. I wish I had tho.....

There were lots of cool stuff on that small tropical island. Iguanas everywhere, smaller lizards, land crabs but the creepiest were the leaf cutter ants I came across......Literally a 3' - 4' wide path of swarming ants going from one destination to another.....

At the end of the dry season while I was on the island and the rains started coming, the causeway off our island was filled with these land crabs coming out to mate at night. The numbers of these crabs were incredible......Given that our living quarters were within the concrete wall at the front of the compound, there were water drainage pipes in virtually every "room". So one morning I started putting on my boots only to find one of these crabs that came thru the drainage pipe had taken refuge in my boot......YIKES!...LOL!

All in all, my brief tenure on Flamenco Island was a very cool experience............

I actually loved the Army at that time in my life..........

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