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Posted on 07/24/2005 4:41:59 PM PDT by kingattax
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Going to the bathroom will never be the same for one local woman, not since she was bitten by a water moccasin who was apparently hiding in her toilet.
Alicia Bailey spent three days in the hospital. She's now at home but she's not resting comfortably. She remembers what happened the night she got up to go to the bathroom. "Walked in (to the bathroom) opened up the lid to the toilet and got bit by the water moccasin on the leg."
She was bitten once on the thigh, and given the size of the bite on her leg, many predict it was a very big snake. Alicia says, "His head was every bit of three fingers wide."
She was rushed to the hospital and given anti-venom, but no one knows what happened to the snake or how it got into the house in the first place.
There are woods behind the family's home off Beach Boulevard and with all the recent rain, the snake could have been looking for higher and dryer ground. The family now thinks he could have gotten into the home through the dog door, but there's still a fear, it hasn't left.
Alicia's husband, Richard is searching the home trying to find the snake. He says, "What we're leery about is closets and drawers." He carries a big stick around the house as he looks for the snake and at times his shotgun. "We're not looking to take it alive. I just want it out of here."
Alicia just wants her life, and her house, back. "We're currently very uncomfortable in our home and toilet shy I would say, and real anxious for closure."
The Bailey's have an 11-year old son who is now staying with neighbors. They said, doctors told them, given the size of the snake, if it would have bitten him instead of Alicia, he probably would not have survived
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ouch!
What a nightmare!
Time to move.
You couldn't get me back into the house...ever.
{{{shudder}}}
If that happened to me I'd most likely be constipated for life.
Closure is what got her into this in the first place
If the cover was up like it should always be, this wouldn't have happened.
When women stop being so lazy and stand up, this sort of thing will stop.
Now she knows what it was like to be a female Clinton staffer.
probably came up the sewer pipe, rats will.
This is why I pee in the shower...
That's just wrong....in so...so many ways.
They should call Mongooses R Us.
I can add nothing further. You've said it all!
Can you get septocemia (sp) from a snake bite?
Brings to mind the urban legend of baby crocs in the potty
Turn the lights on, and look before you, uhhh...leap.
That Florida must really be something.
"I spent all this money to have the bathroom remodeled, only to have it come back and bite me in the ......"
Of everything allegedly written by a professional writer, this has to be the worst-punctuated story I have ever read.
Mongooses or mongeese?
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