# CA Clogged Toilet: "You mean, you don't throw those out?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401 "2015-01-09T15:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/1 "2015-01-09T15:13:04Z")
An office toilet was clogged, but a woman in that office really had to go, so she plunged it. She won a prize; a live 5-foot boa constrictor. [http://www.10news.com/news/boa-constrictor-slithers-out-of-toilet](http://www.10news.com/news/boa-constrictor-slithers-out-of-toilet) If it was clogged, does that mean that someone else there blasted it with face-full of poo…? Also, how does a boa get itself wedged into a toilet? “You sure took a long time…” “'I don’t feel well. And, dammit, I Told you that garnish wasn’t caviar…” ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/2 "2015-01-09T15:38:56Z")
Snakes: Another thing I can add to my list of reasons I hover when I do number two. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/3 "2015-01-09T15:46:47Z")
> [@Squall Winds](#): > > Snakes: Another thing I can add to my list of reasons I hover when I do number two. 😃 That reminds me of a comic where a woman is about to sit on the toilet, and [Mickey Rat](http://31.media.tumblr.com/71e996e40006cece0ee5215e13b16139/tumblr_msf1scC9yy1rhjbado1_500.jpg) is popping out of it saying ‘Hiya, baby!’ ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/4 "2015-01-09T15:51:54Z")
Lived in Texas and every few years a large toad would some how crawl up the toilet pipe and appear in the toilet, you’d hear it jumping and hiting the lid. No one believes it, no idea how they were getting in the pipes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/5 "2015-01-09T15:56:28Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Lived in Texas and every few years a large toad would some how crawl up the toilet pipe and appear in the toilet The same toad each time? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/6 "2015-01-09T15:58:51Z")
I live in Texas now (not by choice) and if I go in there to pee in the middle of the night and a toad bites me on the butt I am ABSOLUTELY moving. In the middle of the night. I started to say “back to California” but I see that it’s boas there so never mind. Hawaii, here I come. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/7 "2015-01-09T16:32:53Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I live in Texas now (not by choice) and if I go in there to pee in the middle of the night and a toad bites me on the butt I am ABSOLUTELY moving. In the middle of the night. I started to say “back to California” but I see that it’s boas there so never mind. Hawaii, here I come. _Shhh! Don’t tell her about Oahu centipedes._ ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/8 "2015-01-09T16:33:22Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Lived in Texas and every few years a large toad would some how crawl up the toilet pipe and appear in the toilet, you’d hear it jumping and hiting the lid. In the rest of the country, we spell it “turd.” 😃 There’s a joke about living on Mexican Jumping Beans in there, too, but I’ll just move on. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/9 "2015-01-09T17:23:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The same toad each time? Could be, actually. Back when we lived in toad country there was a big one that used to show up on our front porch, probably to eat bugs attracted by the porch light. I transferred it to the back yard a couple of times, which was a considerable distance all the way around our apartment building. The next morning it would be back on the porch. It got to be a game after a while–at least for me. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/10 "2015-01-09T17:37:54Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > It got to be a game after a while–at least for me. [Hmmm…](http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/frogger_costanza.jpg)😃 ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/11 "2015-01-09T17:38:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The same toad each time? Doubt it but could be, I was just letting them go outside. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/12 "2015-01-09T17:39:02Z")
Do y’all remember my [squirrel surprise](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713887) about this time last year? I put screens over all of the vent pipes to prevent it from happening again. Maybe the snake went in after a squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/13 "2015-01-09T17:45:13Z")
story had it as a pet, whose owners were away, in another unit in the same building ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/14 "2015-01-09T17:53:29Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > An office toilet was clogged, but a woman in that office really had to go, so she plunged it. She won a prize; a live 5-foot boa constrictor. So then did she still really have to go? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/15 "2015-01-09T18:56:22Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Doubt it but could be, I was just letting them go outside. Well, if they could go outside, why did they need a toilet? 😃 Sorry, this topic just spawns endless absurd thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/16 "2015-01-09T19:35:30Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > So then did she still really have to go? Oddly enough, the reporters missed asking about that. The article does say “Up Next: Toilet Snake’s Origin Revealed!” Of course it could just be how Home Depot offers local plumbers a contractor discount. Or how $90 an hour is reasonable when you want to snake the office toilet. “Remember, don’t try this at home…!” Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if she left a trail all the way out to the parking lot. Even if she did, it probably helped Animal Control capture the snake anyway. “Just follow that long trail of spore. Try not to step in it though; you’ll track it back into the van…” I just hope they don’t tag her with one of those vicious pet nick-names some offices give to co-workers. “Betty Poop?” “Too mean.” “Morse Code Road?” Still too much. “Super-Soaker?” “Closer. What else?” “Peel-out spout? Turtle-hurdler? Mabel the Cable Fly? Peed Racer? Boa Consphincter? Plunge-drop-and-roll? Turdo-boost? Deuce Ventura? Bomba Dear? Miss Fiber 2015?” “I’m not sure…” “Brown Garter Snake? Its a shout out to Kill Bill.” “Hmmmm…” ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/17 "2015-01-09T19:50:06Z")
[Local woman goes for bathroom break. You won’t believe what happens next!](http://www.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/18 "2015-01-09T20:20:49Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > ≈ Also, how does a boa get itself wedged into a toilet? Someone tried to snake the pipe without getting the Straight Dope on how to do it first? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/19 "2015-01-09T21:01:52Z")
My SIL once found a rat in her toilet. A broken sewer pipe in the front yard was the entry point. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-clogged-toilet-you-mean-you-dont-throw-those-out/709401/20 "2015-01-09T21:15:37Z")
I was wondering where my trouser snake had gone; must have slipped out when I was doing my business!