This was no plumber's snake.

A resident of a west-end apartment block made a frightening discovery late Tuesday night when he found a metre-long python in his toilet.

The skin-crawling moment occurred in the washroom of Ramdat Punwassie's seventh-floor suite at 220 Woolner Ave., a building operated by Toronto Community Housing Corp. near Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue West.

Punwassie told CP24 he was shocked when he lifted his toilet seat and saw the coiled snake, which lifted its head and looked at him.

Punwassie scrambled out of the bathroom, closed the door and called 911 for help. By the time police arrived, the python was in the bathtub.

Punwassie said he doesn't own a snake and he doesn't know where it came from.

He said he wasn't scared because he encountered snakes in his home country of Guyana.

Two snakes found

This wasn't the first time Toronto police and animal control officers were called to the street to seize a snake.

Early Tuesday morning, someone in an adjacent apartment building at 190 Woolner Ave. found a corn snake coming out of a wall.

The person who reported that discovery doesn't own any snakes, police said.

Animal control officers seized both snakes. The corn snake has been given to Reptilia, while the python is at a Toronto Animal Services building in North York.

No injuries were reported in either call.

Police are looking into both cases, but a spokesman said it's more of an animal control issue than a police matter.

With files from CP24's Cam Woolley and CTV Toronto's Ashley Rowe