Weird news - Finding a snake in the toilet, and then finding many more

People get easily scared by snakes, especially when they appear in the relative safety of the urban environment; and it is right to get scared (but not panicked). There are many species of snakes that are venomous, and there are others that pack a bite that would need medical attention. Unless you are an expert, if you encounter a snake in a confined space (as opposed to say in a park where the snake has space to feel non-threatened and crawl away), it is best to call in an expert and get them to make the identification and remove the snake from that area.
Further increasing the need for calling in an expert is the following case whereby the expert searched for more snakes after one was detected and killed by the house-owners, and found 23 more snakes, and these were deadly venomous snakes, the Western diamondback rattlesnake. Now, these snakes may not have posed an imminent danger, but there is always the risk of some accident arising if the snake feels cornered or threatened in some way (link to article):

What do you do if you find a snake in your toilet? If you're Isac Mcfadden, you go get your mom. The young boy from Abilene, Texas, woke up Tuesday morning and headed to the bathroom. To his surprise, he found a rattlesnake slithering up his toilet bowl, KXVA reports. "I found this big clump, and I knew it was a snake," said Isac. He quickly called his mom, Cassie Mcfadden, who recruited one of Isac's older brothers to get a shovel to kill the snake. Cassie Mcfadden killed the snake while dad, Jason, called Big Country Snake Removal. When the technician arrived, he found 24 Western diamondback rattlesnakes -- 13 in the cellar, five adults and five babies underneath the house, and the one snake in the toilet, which had entered through a relief pipe.