A nursing center patient found a live snake in his underwear and wanted to keep it as a pet

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This is going to sound like an innuendo, but it isn't. When a nursing center patient in Titusville, Florida, woke up and went to the bathroom, he found a live snake in his underwear, WFTV reports.

"I was like, a snake? A real snake," said Titusville Rehab and Nursing Center nursing assistant Veronica Mitchner. "And I wanted to see the snake and when I seen the snake in a cup, I was like, 'Dang, that's a real snake.'"

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.