It's the kind of story that would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Brampton, Ont. teen Dawood Arian walked into his washroom Monday night only to discover an intruder protruding from the toilet -- "a small slithery red snake."
In an email to CTV Toronto, he said he was "startled" and called the non-emergency police help line because he wasn't sure if the animal was poisonous.
He was referred to Animal Services who told him to barricade the room and that they would come in the morning.
Police did end up coming to the rescue, however, and removed the snake from his home on Derwent Avenue near Main Street and Steeles Avenue.
Arian, 17, said he hadn't ever seen a snake before Monday night.
While it's not quite an outbreak of biblical proportions, Arian's intruder wasn't the first snake to disturb Toronto's toilets in the last few months.
In October, Ramdat Punwassie found a python in his toilet in his seventh-storey apartment near Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue West.
There was also an yellow corn snake found in an adjacent home the same day.
