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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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Sorta like the movie Psycho. I didn't take a shower if I was alone in the house for a long time.
Somewhere a husband is thinking, "if she'd just not nagged me about putting that lid down, it would have never happened."
Wow! Even when you're not TAKING a shower?
I think I'll just stay here up north, above the killer snake range, thank you very much. Classic thread at #89.
When I was in high school I found a baby possum in the toilet one night, every since then I always check before doing my business.
:o)
How in the world did it get hold of a Dove. I hate snakes.
what did she think was in there? a phantom duker?
Gotta love that southern livin'
lol!
This is the skeery part: "but no one knows what happened to the snake"!
Oooooeeeeoooooooeeeeeeooooooeeeeee!
This could certainly justify the use of the light switch on one of those early morning "urges"...
I have discovered that that ritual is the bane of getting older...
And dangit!!! I am not that old!!!
Xena; what do you mean, too many commas, as in too many; commas, or two many; commas,?
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Elaine: Huh! Sexy?
George: This woman drove us out of our minds
Elaine: Like ...humm...How did she sound?
George: She had this throaty , sexy kind of whisper.
Elaine: Really , like a... like a....(leans over to George and whispers) Jerry, I want to slide my tongue around you like a snake.....Ooooooooooha ,oooooohaaaa.....
George: Oh! my God!!......You?.....You?...That was you?....
Elaine: Shhhhhh!!!
Never gives me trouble. . .never concerned with it. I only lift once and let'er fly. . .!
Like Jaws, does this mean people will stop using the toilet?
All I know is I lift once and let go. . .and it doesn't cause me any harm. . .
;-)
That's about the last place on her anatomy that I thought about when I read the headline.
PS: I know about slugs. I stepped on one once barefoot. It squished up between my toes. Too gross to even contemplate.
I’m with you,
I read this thread 45 minutes ago and the hair on the back of my neck is still bristling.
how will this woman ever get over this mentally—OMG!!!
shudder is right...
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