Python In Your Home :12 Foot Long Pyton In A Texas Woman's Bathroom

                        

The 12-foot-long African python managed to slither into the Texas home before getting trapped in the bathroom.

A 12-foot-long African python sparked brief hisss-teria in a Texas home last week after a woman found it slithering inside her bathroom.

Veronica Rodriguez, 50, said she found the rogue reptile while talking on the phone with her daughter, Kelsie Fowler, about a strange noise she was hearing inside their College Station house, located about 100 miles northwest of Houston.

“As soon as I turned on the light, that’s when I saw it,” she told The Eagle.

“It was crawling into my tub ... It really spooked me so bad.”

The panicked woman slammed the door and sprinted out of the house before dialing 911.

A short time later, Officer Tony Gonzales with the College Station Police Department arrived at the home carrying brown sack.

“I told him, ‘You’re going to need a bigger sack than that,’” Rodriguez told the newspaper.

And when Gonzales opened the door, he realized he would have to call for backup to help him grab the snake, which likely slipped into the house through an open door earlier in the day.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do with a snake that large,” the cop told the paper.

An animal control officer was dispatched to the home, but he only had a 10-gallon bucket.

“No one believed me that the snake was that big,” Gonzales recalled.

The pair decided to use a trash can to capture the python, but the snake didn’t get in without a struggle.

“It was pretty aggressive,” Gonzales said. “It definitely didn’t want to go into the trash can.”

The snake, believed to be between 4 and 5 years old, was taken to a reptile rescue facility and was later reunited with its owner. It was not clear how the snake had escaped or how far it had traveled before reaching Rodriguez’s home.

Her daughter, a senior in high school, said she thought her mother was overreacting until she saw a picture of the slithering suspect.

“I thought she was being over-dramatic,” Fowler told the newspaper. “I’d probably pass out on the floor if I saw that.”

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