WATCH: Mozambique spitting cobra rears its head from North West toilet | ssharim
"It was very scary, something that only ever happens in movies," Juliette Roos told News24.
Roos her husband Johan and two children weren't camping far from the Nyati Sportschool, where her son participated in a rugby tournament.Roos says her 5-year old daughter had just finished using the toilet when she first spotted the snake.A friend of her daughter was also in the cubicle. She didn't want to alarm or traumatise the little girls and asked them to turn around and called her husband."I definitely did not expect to find a snake in the toilet," Johan told News24.
Johan tried removing it from the toilet bowl but gave up after realising he didn't have the right equipment for the job."I think my daughter was very lucky to have escaped unscathed," Johan said.Durban-based snake expert Byron Zimmerman told News24 that the toilet snake was indeed a Mozambique spitting cobra.
"How it got in there is anyone's guess but I suspect through the top. It is unlikely it came through the pipe," he said.These snakes are highly venomous. Their venom is cytotoxic, causing massive swelling and loss of tissue, Zimmerman said.It's best to leave these snakes alone, he added.
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