Well, this story gives a new meaning to the plumbing term "drain snake."

Miranda Stewart of Fort Collins, Colorado, couldn't figure out why her toilet wouldn't flush Wednesday morning. Upon investigating, she was in for a rude surprise.

"I looked and leaned in closer and a snake head slithered up," Stewart said. "I was terrified. It's actually been one of my fears since I was a kid."

Stewart immediately called her apartment complex's maintenance man, Wesley Sanford, who spent 40 minutes extracting the 4-foot corn snake.

Since corn snakes are a common pet, Sanford believed the animal might belong to another tenant in the building, but after an unsuccessful attempt at locating the owner, did what anyone with a 4-foot toilet snake would do.

He adopted it.

"I took him home and my wife was very happy with me and we named him Boots," Sanford told FOX31 in Denver. "He's our little guard snake on the property."

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