AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A Central Texas woman is describing something ... didn’t flip the lights on and felt something. “The rat snake bit me in my leg when I sat on it,” she said.

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Most of us only gripe about not having loo roll during midnight bathroom trips, but for one Texas woman ... Maria quickly realised her mistake as a rat snake that had curled up under the toilet ...