AFTER ELUDING THE BELEAGURED RESIDENTS of an apartment building in Vitrolles, France, for two weeks, a 7-½ ft. long python was finally caught yesterday. The long creature had escaped from it’s cage in one of the apartments and found its way into the sewer lines. It got its nickname “Python of the Toilets” after it made its appearance in the toilet bowls of two apartments. One woman lifted the lid to do you-know-what and was greeted by the snake. She screamed and immediately pulled the flush handle, sending the runaway back into the drains. Another woman had the same experience and called in her husband who tried to grab the critter, but failed to reach it in time.
So who ya’ gonna call?
Finally the residents called the pompiers who, along with a group of policemen, tracked the snake back to the outdoor sewer lines where they found it after opening three access covers. Like firefighters everywhere, their first line of attack was the CO2 extinguisher.
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After successfully “cooling” the animal, one of the policemen got his hand on the head and pulled it out of the sewer. It has been taken to a zoo near Vitrolles.
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La Provence has the STORY.
Firegeezer readers will recall a similar REPORT HERE about a poisonous cobra loose in a German apartment where the firefighters literally ripped out the walls and floors of the building getting at the viper.
