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    Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:23am EDT
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    CANBERRA (Reuters) - A 1.8 meter (nearly six feet) python has been found in a toilet bowl in a highrise apartment in Australia's northern tropical city of Darwin, media reported on Friday.

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    The Northern Territory News said the black-headed python was found in a 10th floor toilet.

    Reptile catcher Chris Peberdy told the newspaper the python, likely to be a runaway pet, had been traveling through the building's sewer pipes.

    "When I saw it I was pretty shocked," he said. "There is no possible other way it could have got there than through the toilet. I had to give him a wash because he was wet and a bit smelly."

    (Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by David Fogarty)
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