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San Diego women find 5-foot boa constrictor — in the toilet

(Photo courtesy County of San Diego Department of Animal Services/Facebook)

It’s the stuff horror movies are made of.

Stephanie Lacsa and Holly Wells, co-founders of Vertical PR + Marketing, noticed the water level in their private in-office’s toilet was higher than usual.

Assuming the issue was related to the old pipes in the 1886-built building, Lacsa grabbed a plunger, hoping for a quick fix.

When she spotted a flickering tongue and in the toilet, however, she screamed and ran out of the bathroom, taping the door shut behind her.

“I thought my eyes were deceiving me,” Lacsa, who admits to having “an intense fear of snakes,” said in the firm’s news release about the incident.

“But as soon I saw the flicker of its tongue, I definitely knew that it was in fact a large snake heading straight towards me.”

“It’s the most bizarre, frightening thing I can think of,” she told the USA TODAY Network.

“Business was done after that. It took an hour and a half for animal control to get out,” said Wells. “We were stuck in our office with our feet up on the desk.”

The San Diego Country Department of Animal Services arrived to find a shedding, agitated, 5-foot-6-inch Colombian rainbow boa constrictor coiled behind the toilet.

Animal control officers captured the snake — it bit one of the handlers in the process — and took it to a veterinarian.

Lacsa told reporters that her landlord informed her that a tenant in the building owned a snake that recently went missing. So far, that tenant has not stepped forward to retrieve the terrifying-looking reptile.

If no owner comes forward by Friday, the snake will be given to a reptile rescue group accustomed to working with boa constrictors.

"The snake scared the living daylights out of us, but we truly hope he gets the care he needs and can be placed in a good home,” Wells said in a statement.

“And I also hope that the new owners of that home know to keep their toilet seat lids down.”