Australian Woman Shocked To Find Snake Munching On A Rat In Her Toilet Bowl

Honestly, I was shocked about the snake in toilet bowl part until I realised this is Australia.

Like, c’mon. This is the country that basically anything living there can kill you.

Snakes munching on a rat in your toilet bowl is pretty much like S’poreans discovering flying ants in their homes.

It’s basically just another day in Australia, mates.

If you don’t believe me, this was the person’s reaction to finding the snake in the toilet bowl:

“I certainly don’t like them in my toilet.”

I certainly don’t like them? You know what kind of questions are usually answered with that statement?

What do you think of onions in burgers? Oh yeah, I certainly don’t like them in my burgers.

What do you think of bloatware that comes when you buy a phone? Yeah, those suck. I certainly don’t like them in my phone wasting space. But Goody Feed app is nice. You should download here.

I remember there was a time, some beetle flew into my classroom. For the sake of my dignity (and my classmates’), let’s just say that a few textbooks were harmed in the process of trying to deal with the flying bugger.

And then now this woman just goes and says… “I certainly don’t like them in my toilet.” when asked “What do you think of snakes eating rats in your toilet bowl?”

This happened on 12 Oct 2019, when she woke up early for the markets, only to discover the snake eating a rat in her toilet bowl after turning on the lights.

But, siaolang Goody Feed writer, this made the news. Surely this must be at least some kind of a big thing over in the land of the roos?

Tsk, tsk, tsk. That’s probably only because this Queensland woman, Jana Engler, wasn’t a native Australian and only moved from Germany to Australia more than a decade ago.

It’s Not The First Time

To be fair: she does say this is an uncommon occurrence for her. Years ago, she had one in her house, and then encountered another outside over a year ago.

This was a contradiction with her other statements though. Because she thinks she may have seen the same python about a week before.

“We were over at a neighbour’s house and the dogs were going nuts in the garden and then we went outside and we saw it slithering over to my house and up a tree next to myself.”

And in her situation, she remembered that her son, TJ, is “interested in them, and got his son out of bed to see the snake.

To be fair to them again, this at least sounded a little abnormal to them in their reaction. Ms Engler shut the door to trap the snake, and a few hours later returned with a snake catcher.

“I would not have opened the door again.”

“I don’t know where it would have been.”

Pythons Like This Are Normally Harmless

Unless you’re a rat, of course. Snakes like carpet pythons are commonly found by residents in Queensland, and are usually friendly (except to rats).

When the snake catcher came, they could only find the dead rat, and had to search under the rim where the water comes out.

“When he [the snake catcher] came, he went in there and he thought it might be under the rim, like where the water comes out.”

“So he was heating up the toilet with a hairdryer and looking for it, but it had disappeared.”

“We had a look at the plumbing and how it goes under the house from the toilet. There’s this little air pipe that goes up on to the top of the roof.

“It’s been really dry in Cairns, so the rats might have gone into the pipe to drink. And the snake might have picked them up and gone after them down that air pipe and they had nowhere else to go other than into the water and then up into the toilet bowl where they couldn’t get out.”

Conspiracy Theory: This Was A Clever Marketing Ploy To Promote A Bakery

To be clear, this part is all just my imagination which may or may not be true.

So put on your tin foil hats, for we have to come up with theories for why an Aussie, who should be used to fighting Kangaroos and fending off raining spiders as part of breakfast routine, will want to report something trivial to the news.

In the Yahoo! News article, it was mentioned that Jana Engler is the owner of Jana’s Bakehouse, known for its artisan sourdough. And that has now found “herself in the news for something other than her baking skills.”

Later, they also mentioned twice about how she had to go to the market.

Why was it necessary to report these unrelated facts for snakes in a toilet?

So here’s my theory: this was a clever marketing ploy to get concerned neighbours to visit the bakery and ask her about appearing on the news, which can then be converted to sales and business for the bakery.

Well played, marketer, well played.