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Python in squat toilet leaves man bloody but unbowed

The 38-year-old Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling from his hospital bed when he spoke with Thai TV Channel 7 News about his intimate encounter with the snake.

Attaporn told reporters he was using the squat toilet in his home when the 3 meter (10 feet) python latched onto his penis. The snake had apparently slithered through the plumbing and came up in the toilet. Attaporn was in good spirits while telling reporters of his harrowing experience.

He said it took at least 30 minutes to get the snake to let go of his private parts, and the man’s bathroom attests to the bloody battle that took place. He freed himself only after his wife and a neighbor stepped in the help. After his wife tied a rope around the reptile, Attaporn was able to pry the python’s jaws apart and free his privates from the snakes mouth.

Emergency workers had to dismantle the toilet to get to the python, which was still entwined in it. The snake was taken away to be released back into the wild, unhurt after its intimate encounter, according to one of the emergency responders, reports SF Gate.

Doctors are saying Attaporn will recover, bloodied but unbowed, according to CTV News.

“He has a really good attitude… even though his own wife and children were in shock. He’s been smiling and giving interviews all day from his bed.” hospital director Dr. Chutima Pincharoen said.

Thailand is home to over 200 species of snakes, 60 of them venomous. Thailand is home to the reticulated and Burmese pythons as well as the blood python. Snakes have been encountered coming out of toilets, slithering into hotel rooms or verandas, or showing up in gardens.

In all, thousands of times a year, Bangkok’s Fire and Rescue Department 199 hotline rings with someone wanting them to send out a snake wrangler. About 80 percent of the calls are for pythons, usually the reticulated and occasionally the Burmese python.

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