Toilet snake attack: urban legend comes true?

[Manchungster]

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on Monday.
"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.

(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Nick Macfie and Miral Fahmy)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE54A5WL20090511



LOL to the

"When he looked down, he saw the big snake."

[Hook]

methinx the urban legend relates to the snake entering the house from the sewer lines via the toilet

[Zeriam]

they said rural area not urban area

[PreMieR]

thats what i was thinkin Zeriam, i hardly doubt rural area have proper sewer lines..

[Damien]

Probably the snake see a worm and come to mate or eat or something ,think that snake will do that in africa hell no

[Sumana.00]

just to clarify

urban legend 69 up, 5 down love it hate it

Def: A modern myth. A frightening untrue story in which the storyteller insists is true, but has no evidence to back up. Also, it never happened to the storyteller but someone removed from them.

[DTAC]

That entire story is one long $hit snake.

[RoTaRyBoYz]

That forker lucky it wasn't a zangee that attacked him