 A woman came home from her holiday to find an enormous, hissing snake in her toilet and it took handlers two days to remove it. Horrified Michelle Lespron said she 'slammed the lid back down right away' after spotting the black and pink-coloured coachwhip snake. Michelle – who lives in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona, US – had popped to the loo shortly after returning from a trip to Nashville. She said she couldn't wait to sleep in her own bed and use her own bathroom, but instead discovered the hissing intruder in her home. Preferring not to catch the snake herself, she enlisted the help of experts, Rattlesnake Solutions However, it took handler Nick three visits over two days to catch the elusive reptile. A video shows him bursting into the bathroom and quickly grabbing the snake before it bares its fangs and hisses at the camera. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The coachwhip snake as the handler removes it from the toilet (Picture: Jam Press) She said: 'He's my hero, Nick at Rattlesnake Solutions is my absolute hero.' Although coachwhips are non-venomous they can often aggressively when anyone tries to handle them. However, according to Rattlesnake Solutions it's unusual for the species slither their way into a toilet. The firm's owner Bryan Hughes coachwhips are very sneaky, which meant capturing the snake wasn't completely straight forward. He added: 'A coachwhip – some people call it a red racer but this one isn't red – is a fast, intelligent snake. 'It eats rattlesnakes, it climbs trees, it climbs houses, it does what it wants.' The company also joked that Michelle has 'the most famous toilet since Elvis'. Michelle said it took her a while before she was able to use the toilet again, even though she knew the snake had be){kind=link}
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A woman came home from her holiday to find an enormous, hissing snake in her toilet and it took handlers two days to remove it.
Horrified Michelle Lespron said she ‘slammed the lid back down right away’ after spotting the black and pink-coloured coachwhip snake.
Michelle – who lives in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona, US – had popped to the loo shortly after returning from a trip to Nashville.
She said she couldn’t wait to sleep in her own bed and use her own bathroom, but instead discovered the hissing intruder in her home.