Blind man accidentally picks up 8ft python which crawled into his bathroom

A blind man accidentally picked up a huge snake which crawled into his bathroom through the toilet.

Stuart Saunders, 60, was listening to music when he heard crashing sounds late at night and went to investigate.

He found what he thought was a foam pipe for insulation, and tried to pick it up several times to shift it.

But his horrified support worker then burst into the room and told him the intruder was a massive escaped snake.

The deadly reptile had escaped through the plumbing system into his home in Exeter, Devon.

Stuart, who was born blind, said: ‘I was laying in my reclining chair listening to my music when the next minute I heard ‘crash! crash!’ and things began falling in the bathroom.

‘After a while I went into the bathroom to pick them up, I thought the wind from the window may have blown them over.

‘A toothbrush and glass, a bottle of bleach and shampoo had all fallen down.. When I picked them up I noticed this thing on the floor, like insulation had come up.

‘I went forward and picked it up but it was too heavy. I rang my support worker on the intercom and said ‘I’ve got a bit of mess ‘ and over they came.

‘My mate Jason said, ‘you’ve got a snake in your bathroom.’

‘We rang the police, they rang the RSPCA, but it was Exeter Exotics who came over and caught it for us.

‘It left the bathroom in an awful mess, with gunge on the wall. The whole bathroom has to be deep cleaned.’

Stuart had never handled a snake before, and added: ‘I have never, ever had a snake in my bathroom.

‘I was so amazed. I thought, ‘How did that get there?’ Goodness knows, I don’t know.’

Jason added: ‘I walked in and opened the door, thinking a bottle of bleach had fallen on the floor or something and there was this massive snake curled up.

‘And I had to actually walk in and out again because I just could not believe it.’

Nearby Exeter Exotics is now looking after the python after it was found at 10pm on Sunday evening.

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