Giant snake found inside national park toilet

13-foot-long Olive Python was removed without incident

Giant Olive Python found in Australian national park toilet (Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife / Facebook)

AUSTRALIA – National parks are great places to see wildlife in their native surroundings.

But sometimes things can go too far.

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Rangers at Charles Darwin National Park in Australia were shocked to find a slithering surprise inside the toilet of one of the park's bathrooms.

The 13-foot Olive Python was taking a dip inside the toilet of one the ladies restroom stalls.

Park authorities posted the encounter on Facebook, saying it took a little while to coax the snake out of the bowl, but they were eventually persuasive enough to remove the unwelcome visitor.

Olive Pythons, the second-largest snake species in Australia, are nonvenemous and are not considered to be dangerous, unless you're the beating heart of a visitor who accidentally got up close with nature in the most unlikely of settings.

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Posted by Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday, May 11, 2016