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Snake In Toilet Bites Woman
First Coast News ^ | 7/21/2005 | Unknown

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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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 1thisiswhywe; 2leavetheseatup; snakebite; toilet
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To: kingattax
Paging Ricki-Ti-Ki-Tavi...
21 posted on 07/24/2005 4:53:06 PM PDT by ExcursionGuy84 ("I will Declare the Beauty of The LORD.")
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To: The Brush
See, here is the problem:
Women can go to the bathroom with out looking, so they don't turn on the light at night, just sit down.
When we men leave the seat up, they, in the dark, sit down and get mad at us.
The problem isn't the toilet seat up or down, but one of turning on the light.
In this case, her stubbornness not turning on the light bit her on the butt (pun intended).
22 posted on 07/24/2005 4:53:11 PM PDT by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: Normal4me

I sure hope you're male! ;-)


23 posted on 07/24/2005 4:54:47 PM PDT by CO Gal (Liberals should be seen, but not heard..)
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To: Lokibob
When we men leave the seat up, they, in the dark, sit down and get mad at us.

The problem isn't the toilet seat up or down, but one of turning on the light.

Turn on the light????

I thought we guys were supposed to just start spraying and listen for the sound of splashing to figure out when we hit the toilet!
24 posted on 07/24/2005 4:56:40 PM PDT by Paloma_55
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To: Lokibob
" Women can go to the bathroom with out looking, so they don't turn on the light at night, just sit down"

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!

25 posted on 07/24/2005 4:57:05 PM PDT by The Brush
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To: kingattax

Sounds like an urban legend to me.


26 posted on 07/24/2005 4:58:49 PM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: kingattax

The headline on this article should have read: "Snake to woman--I've had enough sh*t from you!!"


27 posted on 07/24/2005 4:59:13 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: kingattax

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.


28 posted on 07/24/2005 4:59:14 PM PDT by WestPoint90
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To: Normal4me
This is why I pee in the shower...

I don't believe you. :D

29 posted on 07/24/2005 4:59:24 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Paloma_55

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?"


30 posted on 07/24/2005 5:01:03 PM PDT by JustinDarr
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To: The Brush

"If the cover was up like it should always be"

Well do you really think the snake put the lid up and got in?


31 posted on 07/24/2005 5:01:26 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (Snakes Alive!)
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To: CO Gal
"I sure hope you're male! ;-)"

Yes, and single too. Go figure!

32 posted on 07/24/2005 5:03:08 PM PDT by Normal4me (I'm sweating like a muslim wearing a backpack on a London subway!)
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To: jwh_Denver
Well do you really think the snake put the lid up and got in? I wouldn't put anything past them, one of them once bit my sister's moose!
33 posted on 07/24/2005 5:04:07 PM PDT by The Brush
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To: JustinDarr

Oh stop it! Women will always put the seat down. Men will always leave it up. It's a nature thing.;


34 posted on 07/24/2005 5:04:23 PM PDT by Temple Owl (19064)
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To: Loud Mime

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.


35 posted on 07/24/2005 5:04:41 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Conservatism: doing what is right instead of what is easy)
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To: kingattax
My first thought was where?

Then I saw the dateline said Jacksonville.

36 posted on 07/24/2005 5:04:59 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: savedbygrace
Shouldn't that be Mongeese Are Us? Just kidding.
37 posted on 07/24/2005 5:05:03 PM PDT by Old Seadog ("The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- WINST)
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To: kingattax

""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. . . .?


38 posted on 07/24/2005 5:05:16 PM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: kingattax

Nasty looking beast!


39 posted on 07/24/2005 5:05:27 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: kingattax; glock rocks

Sleep well and sweet dreams...


40 posted on 07/24/2005 5:06:16 PM PDT by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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