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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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I sure hope you're male! ;-)
Well that's just WRONG! If I'm getting up to go to the bathroom I turn on every light and make as much noise as I can.
And why not? It's my castle... and my throne room!
Sounds like an urban legend to me.
The headline on this article should have read: "Snake to woman--I've had enough sh*t from you!!"
In the last couple of months, I have had to introduce 5 water mocs to my shovel. The buggers sometimes travel in pairs. With all this rain we are experiencing in FL, it is a big problem in new developments. I'm always worried about my lab. Glad the lady survived. The aren't nice snakes.
I don't believe you. :D
With my 11 year old son, I consider it a small victory if he even looks to lift the lip, let alone the seat.
"So, Son, did you hear the water splashing?"
"Huh?"
"Did you HEAR THE WATER SPLASHING!?!?!?"
"Huh?"
"If the cover was up like it should always be"
Well do you really think the snake put the lid up and got in?
Yes, and single too. Go figure!
Oh stop it! Women will always put the seat down. Men will always leave it up. It's a nature thing.;
Absolutely, you can get a local, followed by systemic infections (septicemia) from untreated viper bites, not to mention pit-vipers like mocassins and rattlers deliver bites that are very painful, with much local tissue destruction, pain, swelling, and infection. Part of the treatment is always antibiotics to combat the secondary bacterial infections.
Then I saw the dateline said Jacksonville.
""Walked in (to the bathroom) opened up the lid to the toilet and got bit by the water moccasin on the leg."
Standing to pee. . . .?
Nasty looking beast!
Sleep well and sweet dreams...
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