A 38-year-old restaurateur found a 7-foot-long python in her toilet while she was washing her hands early Monday. She said most of the venomous python's body was hidden in the pipes and was trying to come out of her bathroom.

The New Yorker Nadege Brunacci said, "I turned on the light and screamed. It still makes my heart race."

In what may be the first incident ever recorded, a 53-year-old man from Prosser, Washington claims he was bitten by the decapitated head of a rattlesnake in his house and had to be hospitalized.

The incident took place on Monday when Danny Anderson and his son saw the five-foot snake while feeding horses. The pair immediately pinned it with a pipe and cut off its head with a shovel.

A classical flutist who was arrested on disorderly conduct charges in March for playing his flute in an upscale downtown neighborhood has sued the city authorities for violating his civil rights. The charges against Felix Wilkins were dismissed in May when a judge agreed to his claims that he had the right to play music on a city street.

Wilkins was arrested March 28 as he was playing his pipe at the corner of a public street and an officer walked up to him and told him to stop playing the flute.

A 2-pound kitten was finally rescued from a storm drain in West Virginia, with the help of two fire trucks, five firefighters, several animal rescuers and about 250 gallons of water.

Firefighters tried coaxing it out with food and encouraging words. They also tried flashing lights and banging tools on the pipe to scare the kitten out, reported CNN.

An 83-year-old woman from Florida was lured into revealing her personal information by another woman who made her smoke crack and then used that information to have a credit card in her name.

According to investigators, Theresa M. Stanley-Morgan, 41, is now charged of getting the elderly woman Shirley Hathaway to smoke the drug at least twice so she could run up at least $3,200 in charges.