Alabama construction worker startled by snake in toilet

HUEYTOWN, AL -- This story will have you checking before you go next time.

A construction worker was taking a bathroom break from a job site in Alabama when he noticed a four-foot snake coiled in the toilet!

"So when I was going to use the restroom, I saw a snake around the commode and I'm thinking it was a joke," said Willie Harris.

But once he saw the snake move a few times, he knew it was no laughing matter. Harris says his boss called 911 and luckily help wasn't far behind.

Officer Alice Thompson says she quickly devised a strategy to get rid of the reptile, while at the same time, not harming it.

"She had a baton, and she grabbed the other guy's baton and she grabbed the snake by the head," said Harris.

"I was holding it actually on the corners of the mouth where the mouth was actually open at the time, which for me, that was actually the first time I'd ever seen fangs that were folded back in a snake," said Officer Thompson.

As all of this was going on, we're told Thompson's two male partners and the construction workers were all huddled in a corner watching.

Thompson then carried what she believed to be a poisonous cottonmouth out of the bathroom and hopped in the back her her partner's squad car. The snake was released back into the wild.