{"id":208677,"date":"2025-12-24T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:10:06","slug":"man-finds-snake-in-malaysia-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208677\/","title":{"rendered":"Man finds snake in Malaysia toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">KOTA KINABALU, Sabah \u2013 A man in need of a toilet break had to hold on a while longer when he saw a huge python inside the toilet bowl of a salon, in the Malaysian federal territory of Labuan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He was taken aback when he flipped open the toilet cover to find the reptile curled up in the bowl at around 10am on Dec 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cLuckily, the snake did not attack me,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Labuan Civil Defence Department officials said they received a call at about 10.30am, and reached the salon not long afterwards to get the reptile out, before handing it over to wildlife officials.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A day earlier, civil defence officials also responded to a snake call in the Taman Indah Jaya residential area of Sabah\u2019s Sandakan city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 4m-long snake was slithering outside a house after dusk, where a resident saw it and immediately called 999 for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 15kg reptile was captured and put inside a gunny sack. No one was injured in the incident. THE STAR\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KOTA KINABALU, Sabah \u2013 A man in need of a toilet break had to hold on a while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-208677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}