ABILENE, Texas -- A snake-removal expert said rattlesnakes often hide in Texas homes, but having one peer up from a toilet is unusual. Nathan Hawkins said Friday he was called to a home after a boy lifted the toilet lid and found a rattlesnake poking out of the water. Hawkins said the snake got into the plumbing through an exposed pipe. The boy's mother decapitated the snake, and Hawkins removed 23 others he found in the storm cellar and beneath the home.
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