News Forum - Chon Buri resident’s lucky escape from giant lizard lurking in toilet

[Thaiger]

In a surprising experience, a resident of the Bang Nang community in Chon Buri’s Phan Thong district encountered an outsized lizard in his toilet. He was fortunate enough to evade a potential bite after doing his business as usual, and alerted others of the lurking danger with detailed posts on social media. Late at night, … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

Looks like in many places the sweage system is not centralized enclosed and it is being channed to the public drainange system.  That is the entry point for all these creatures.  

[palooka]

Lucky it wasn't a snake. Had a few locals complain of snakes in the toilet area.

One didn't complain the Cobra made sure of that. Lived alone, drunk (usual state) went to the toilet late at night. Autopsy showed venom killed him not the local booze.

[Marc26]

10 minutes ago, palooka said:

Lucky it wasn't a snake. Had a few locals complain of snakes in the toilet area.

One didn't complain the Cobra made sure of that. Lived alone, drunk (usual state) went to the toilet late at night. Autopsy showed venom killed him not the local booze.

We have a house in Nonthaburi and it's on a dead end street next to a big vacant field next to it

1st 6 months was ok but once they got all that rain, there were a lot of snakes

 

So I always bang on the door before entering the bathroom.............and look at the toilet and flush before as well

[Ramanathan.P]

12 minutes ago, palooka said:

Lucky it wasn't a snake. Had a few locals complain of snakes in the toilet area.

One didn't complain the Cobra made sure of that. Lived alone, drunk (usual state) went to the toilet late at night. Autopsy showed venom killed him not the local booze.

Cobra will not enter through the toilet bowl as they need to keep their head above water all the times. It is not like Python which can go submerged underwater. 

[palooka]

3 minutes ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Cobra will not enter through the toilet bowl as they need to keep their head above water all the times. It is not like Python which can go submerged underwater. 

Outside Thai toilet, ??? door, corn field 2 metres away.

[Marc26]

15 minutes ago, palooka said:

Outside Thai toilet, ??? door, corn field 2 metres away.

We were just at a farm in Vancouver Island BC

Must have seen 10 snakes in 3 days, but all harmless

 

But my wife's village is basically all rice that is fertile all year(3 harvests)

And they very rarely see snakes(thank God!)

 

It is because it's mostly wet?

[Ramanathan.P]

12 hours ago, Marc26 said:

But my wife's village is basically all rice that is fertile all year(3 harvests)

And they very rarely see snakes(thank God!)

It is because it's mostly wet?

You will see them when the ground is harden and about to harvest the grains. These fellows will come to hunt the rodents.....bioligical food cycle and natural way of controlling them. 

[Marc26]

1 hour ago, Ramanathan.P said:

You will see them when the ground is harden and about to harvest the grains. These fellows will come to hunt the rodents.....bioligical food cycle and natural way of controlling them. 

Yeah and since they have the 3 harvests the ground is almost always wet

 

So they don't seem to have many snake issues