‘Went into my bathroom and found Godzilla in my toilet’: Florida man gets nasty shock as angry IGUANA invades his toilet bowl
- John Riddle, 58, encountered an unwanted guest when he went to use the bathroom at his home in Hollywood, Florida.
- The angry iguana turned to hiss at Riddle before fishing him out of the toilet bowl with a net he uses to clean his swimming pool
- Stunned Riddle described the furious iguana as ‘Godzilla’ and vowed to never leave the door open for his pet dogs again
A Florida man got a nasty shock biting on the toilet as he came face-to-face with an angry iguana.
John Riddle, 58, was about to use the bathroom in his Hollywood home when he noticed it was already occupied – by the gigantic reptile sitting inside the toilet bowl.
The scaled intruder looked as stunned as Riddle as he began hissing angrily at him, turning his head towards his camera for a menacing shot.
“I walked into my bathroom and found Godzilla in my toilet,” Riddle said.
“He didn’t look happy at all and started splashing and hissing at me.”
Godzilla-like iguana hissed at Riddle before fishing him out with a net
Iguana John Riddle, 58, found loitering in his toilet bowl before he started hissing at him in anger
Quick-thinking John grabbed a net which he uses to clean his swimming pool to weed out the unwanted visitor who was visibly angry
Before Riddle could finally do what he had come to do in the bathroom, he grabbed a net he uses to clean his pool and pulled out the unwanted visitor.
“I guess I won’t leave the door open for dogs anymore,” he added.
The giant lizards are not native to Florida, and the animals have been blamed in recent years for causing building damage and power outages.
The reptiles are native to Central America and some eastern Caribbean islands, and they first arrived in Florida in the 1960s.
Since then, their population has steadily increased. Iguanas are known to enter sewers and are good swimmers, so it’s not uncommon for them to occasionally find their way into someone’s bathroom.
Wildlife experts warn that iguanas can transmit salmonella to pets and cause erosion near lakes and canals, and when temperatures drop the National Weather Service in Miami has been known to issue weather forecasts. iguana.
Iguanas fell paralyzed from trees in Florida as the Sunshine State experienced its coldest weather in over a decade in January 2022
An iguana lying motionless on the ground during a cold snap in Florida in January 2022
When it’s cold, below 40 degrees, the critters go into a kind of suspended animation mode and fall to the ground. They usually wake up in the heat of the sun.
Last January, paralyzed creatures fell from trees after the Sunshine State experienced temperatures of 37 degrees – its coldest weather in 12 years.
The unusually cold weather was triggered by the northeast further up the coast, forcing Floridians to hunker down against near-freezing temperatures.
