A Thai man was terrified after going to the toilet and seeing a COBRA inside the bowl peering up at him.<br /><br />Ton Mongkolnamit visited the loo at his home in Bangkok, Thailand, when he had the nightmare encounter in the early hours of the morning on August 4.<br /><br />He stepped into the bathroom and saw the snake's beady eyes staring at him with its head resting on the toilet seat.<br /><br />Ton said he was frightened by the reptile and screamed for his wife to call the emergency services.<br /><br />Animal handlers arrived at dawn and reached into the toilet using snake catching rods. They were able to lasso the cobra's head and drag it to safety. <br /><br />Ton said: "If that night I did not do a quick scan through my toilet, I might be bitten by the snake."<br /><br />The rescue team took the snake to the local fire station where it will be held alongside other captured snakes before being released into the wild hundreds of miles away.<br /><br />Bangkok - a city built on swampland - has a large population of wild snakes living in the city's waterways and wasteland.<br /><br />The emergency services receive hundreds of thousands of call-outs each year to deal with snake encounters.
