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‘Help me, Jesus!’: Snake falls out of sky, lands on woman, then both attacked by a hawk
Click2Houston ^ | 8/5/23 | Andrea Slaydon,

Posted on 08/07/2023 1:58:50 PM PDT by CFW

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To: simpson96

“I have not laughed so hard, inappropriately, in a long time.”


I laughed myself and I am certain this husband and wife will laugh themselves as they tell this story for years, as will their children and grand-children. It will be a part of their family lore telling the story of the time “Grandma was attacked by a snake and a hawk at the same time” (while Grandpa was sitting inside having a nice restful afternoon).


61 posted on 08/07/2023 5:01:22 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: CFW

Climate change...


62 posted on 08/07/2023 5:02:46 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: AlaskaErik

Juneau is full of them!


63 posted on 08/07/2023 5:03:29 PM PDT by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: telescope115
Why was she cutting the grass instead of her husband?

Why would she be cutting her husband?

No thanks. I wouldn't want a wife like that.

64 posted on 08/07/2023 5:04:17 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: CFW
There really is a newspaper (since 1919!) called the Silsbee Bee!

SNAKES ALIVE!

Very nice of Houston Channel 2 to give credit in bold.

65 posted on 08/07/2023 5:13:43 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

RFK Jr is a falconer.


66 posted on 08/07/2023 5:57:42 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas)
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To: CFW
This is seriously not funny and I am glad she survived! I think she is lucky she was not bitten by the snake or blinded by the hawk or fell off and was injured by tractor!

History:

"The Aztecs in search of their promised land, were told by their god Huitzilopochtli, that when they would find the eagle devouring a serperent on a nopal cactus tree, they were to settle down in that place and found Tenochtitlan. " (I am assuming the snake was a rattlesnake!)

They need to close the border before the descendants of the Aztecs consider this a sign that they need to take Silsby for their new capital city in Texas!


67 posted on 08/07/2023 6:00:43 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: CFW

In my area hawks really like to eat snakes. They are easy to swallow I believe.

The local hawks don’t bother with my pot-disturbing squirrels.


68 posted on 08/07/2023 6:03:41 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (“Miserably inadequate” people generally vote Democratic.)
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To: Charles Martel

I was walking near dusk in Mississippi when a large owl flew on to a chimney not 20 feet away. There was not a sound when it flew by.


69 posted on 08/07/2023 6:06:23 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

“This is seriously not funny and I am glad she survived!”


Of course it was not funny at the time it actually happened. I believe anyone on this site would have been scared for her and would have done their best to help the poor lady as she was being attacked.

However, in hindsight and with the re-telling of the events (tractor, snake, hawk, husband) it has all the necessary details of a Monty Python skit or a Jerry Clower** tale. I would bet the couple laughs when they tell the story.

**Jerry Clower’s tale of the coon hunt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AX9QoFhEhI&ab_channel=SouthernTrendkill77


70 posted on 08/07/2023 6:16:22 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: SaveFerris

multiple times in my life I have seen hawks fly through the air with snakes

and every time I get ready to run in case the snake drops his meal


71 posted on 08/07/2023 6:33:46 PM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: Yo-Yo

yuck
hope it does not get infected


72 posted on 08/07/2023 6:37:53 PM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: CFW

I would agree that in hindsight and since she’s doing fine they have a family story that’s an absolute hoot!


73 posted on 08/07/2023 6:57:52 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: CFW

Unexpectedly.

Was she vaxed?

(Seriously, bless her heart!)


74 posted on 08/07/2023 7:09:42 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: CottonBall

She probably didn’t have a drink holder on her lawnmower.

One can never be too careful.


75 posted on 08/07/2023 7:16:49 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: CFW; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; ...
Snake venom on her glasses, and she has already been back on the tractor. She was helped by Jesus, who used a snake!

Beaumont is home to the Victory Temple church of the late preacher B.H. Clendennen, http://www.limerickcitychurch.com/blog/man-of-faith-bh-clendennen-pt1 MARINE CORPS WWII Veteran and purple heart recipient, enrolled in the national purple heart hall of honor, oil rig worker, minister in Vietnam and in Moscow, and was also an Admiral in the Texas Navy. Glory to God.
And who preached one of the most powerful sermons I ever heard, Soldiers (listen)



76 posted on 08/07/2023 7:28:05 PM PDT by daniel1212 (As a damned+destitute sinner turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves souls on His acct + b baptized 2 obey)
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To: crusty old prospector
How many times per year do you mow?

Every week from May until the end of September or beginning of October. Those long days really make the grass grow. I only have about 5000 sq ft of yard to mow, but that pretty much fills up a 64 gallon trash can.

77 posted on 08/07/2023 7:40:07 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: CFW

Hawk was paying attention and was trying to help her out.

Obviously...


78 posted on 08/07/2023 7:40:12 PM PDT by OKSooner (Maybe Quix was right about some stuff. Pronouns=(XY, XYim, XY's))
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To: FrozenAssets

Juneau is full of them!

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Do Juneau that for certain?


79 posted on 08/07/2023 7:41:43 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: CFW

‘FIGS!’
.
I’M Outta Here!


80 posted on 08/07/2023 8:07:31 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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