Posted on 08/07/2023 1:58:50 PM PDT by CFW
A snake fell out of the sky and landed on a woman mowing her yard.
The bizarre incident didn’t stop there. Peggy Jones was then attacked by a hawk.
Jones was on her tractor mowing at her home in Silsbee, near Beaumont on Tuesday afternoon. She describes how suddenly a snake fell on her, wrapping around her arm.
“The snake was squeezing so hard, and I was waving my arms in the air. And then, this hawk was swooping down clawing at my arm over and over,” explains Peggy Jones. “I just kept saying, ‘Help me, Jesus, Help me, Jesus.’’
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Heck, that ain’t much different than my yard in Texas. Except now, it is a bit brown and dead.
I’ll certainly give that sermon a listen tonight thanks brother!
I had a large vulture drop its “load” right on my windshield, as I was tooling down a busy Interstate, some years back. It looked like an instant curtain coming down. Talk about your vision impairment! The “splatter” covered almost my entire windshield. Best I could do was quickly hit my emergency flashers and gingerly pull off, hoping there was no obstruction on the shoulder. Then use about half the reservoir of wiper fluid.
Well, at least that wasn’t in my hair!
Just like when the aircraft pooped on the guy in his back yard the other year....you just know the day isn’t going well.
Odds are it was just saliva (maybe hers) and it was not a poisonous snake.
A poisonous snake big enough that this woman (who doesn’t exactly look frail) couldn’t get it off her arm would be a VERY hazardous attempted prey for a hawk. Hawks don’t have much body mass and even a slight bite from an only moderately poisonous “large” snake (say, a really big copperhead) would likely be the end of that hawk. The lower legs (just above the scaly section) have some protection (the leg feathers), but, still...
So, not “impossible”, but awfully unlikely. Granted that having a hawk drop a snake of any species on your arm is highly unlikely!
Modest size non-poisonous snakes really have no defense against a hawk, except for hiding.
We have owls and hawks get killed on the roads here fairly often, usually when swooping down to “hit” some small critter. We have well over 600’ of road frontage, so I’ve found a few dead over the years. Those talons are unbelievably sharp.
See my post above.
The most impressive snake demise I’ve seen was a water snake, probably 2-1/2 to 3 ft. long, swam past me as I was fishing @ a local pond some years back. It headed further out, and then there was this big “sploosh” and a surface “swirl”, and... a disappeared snake. It was dusk and I didn’t get a good look at the fish. In that pond it pretty much had to be a big Largemouth Bass or an even bigger Channel Catfish (which absolutely WILL hit prey on the surface).
yup
I know that old joke!
Lots of folks have been killed and injured in Falcons!
My barn kitties probably disappear from this Death From Above thing; too.
As for the twice in one day experience, my hair was still wet after shampooing out the first dropping when the second one got me. Rough day.
He was high above Beaumont; tossing slithery things out the cargo door.
Them other Kennedys prefer a Pinto.
Limerick city?!
That does it!
Mark - we are needed here.....
Saw a hawk flying high in the air,
Drop a snake - landed right in my hair!
But the hawk grabbed my arm,
(Really caused me some harm!)
and my husband was off - who knows where?
approriate? or not??
660?
Not the usual greasy grace.
For later
Thanks
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