New York woman finds python in toilet

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- There were no clues Thursday as to how a 7-foot python came to be lodged in the toilet of a New York woman's apartment.

Nadege Brunacci, 38, told the New York Daily News she thought she was hallucinating Monday morning when she went into the bathroom and saw the serpent looking up at her from the toilet bowl.

Brunacci said she slammed the lid down, put a heavy box on top of it and called the fire department, WABC-TV, New York, reported.

She then flushed the toilet, which drove the reptile to an apartment downstairs, the report said.

Her landlord, fire officials and several plumbers converged and began cutting pipes and retrieved the python. It was taken to a Brooklyn animal rescue center, which was searching for a home for it, WCBS-TV, New York, said.

City bylaws forbid keeping pythons as pets.