AWOL 2014 Issue 282 16th May | Page 5

Advertise here from only 40 baht per week weird NEWS singapore 6ft snake emerges from toilet to bite housewife A Singapore housewife who felt a sharp pain in her thigh while on the toilet was horrified to discover a six-foot python had emerged from the toilet bowl and sunk its teeth into her leg. Noraslinda Asat, 34, was in the ground-floor toilet of her home when she heard a bubbling noise and felt the bite. After several attempts at grabbing the snake, she pulled it off. Mrs Asat estimated that the snake was 6ft long and as thick as her husband’s forearm. After a short time in hospital, where she received an injection for the bite, she was discharged, but Mrs Asat has revealed the real damage is psychological. She is so traumatised that she is afraid to use the toilet in her home, preferring to go to public ones instead. Officers from Animal Concerns Research and Education Society were unable to find the snake after being called to the scene. A friend of Mr and Mrs Asat later saw the snake in a manhole but was also unable to catch it. This is the second time a snake has been found at the Asat home. Mrs Asat’s mother also saw a snake in the toilet bowl but it slithered back inside when it saw her. china Chewy piece of calamari turns out to be a condom This has got to be up there among the most revolting food finds of all time – a condom in a calamari. Disgusted diner Mai Liang was halfway through her fish and squid rings dish at a restaurant when she discovered a particularly ‘rubbery’ piece was actually a contraceptive. Events took another bizarre twist when the owner of the restaurant in Anhui province, China, grabbed the condom and swallowed it. ‘It was disgusting. My first horrific thought was: Is it used?’ explained Ms Liang. ‘Imagine my horror when I turned it over with my fork and it turned out to be a contraceptive.’ Restaurant boss Yi Ze Teng says she ate the condom to stop the argument with her customer and has accused the diners of putting it in their food to get a free meal. ‘They said if I ate the condom, they would leave the matter, so I