Six-Foot Python Coils Around Teen's Legs As He Sits on Toilet

A teenage boy groggily taking a late night toilet stop got the shock of his life when he came across an unexpected intruder.

The unnamed 17-year-old in Mountain Creek in Queensland, Australia, found that he was sharing the toilet with a large carpet python.

Snake catcher Luke Huntley was called to the house in the Sunshine Coast and said that the teenager did not realize until the serpent wrapped itself around his leg and tried to bite him.

He quickly managed to fight off the snake, which was not poisonous, and beat a hasty retreat.

Huntley told Australia's ABC News: "He flicks it off with its other foot and it sort of recoils. So he pulls his pants up and he runs out of there and he closes the door behind him. His mum said she tried to move it on herself but it kept striking at her," he added.

Huntley put the snake's aggression down being in hunt mode, the fact that it was hungry and that it had been cornered.

"It had to fight because it couldn't run away and that's what the snake did. It's an unusual behavior for a snake to wrap itself around a person and try to strike."

He said it was lucky that the boy was not injured and although it was not the first time he had to get a snake out of the toilet, it was the biggest and most aggressive one he had had to capture, describing it as being in a "grumpy mood".

"I think he's going to make sure all the doors and windows are always closed now, that's how a snake would've got in," he added.

"This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Of all the places to have that happen, when you're at your most vulnerable," he added.

In February, the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers warned Queenslanders to be cautious if they came across snakes in their home because often they might mistake deadly ones for harmless ones.

The National Coronial Information Service says that around 300 people are bitten by snakes in Australia each year, although only 35 people have died between 2000 and 2016.