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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

At first glance, I thought this was pure www.snopes.com material. You know, alligators in the sewers of NYC and all. I was wrong.


41 posted on 07/24/2005 5:06:30 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: Paloma_55

>>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!<<


Works for me. . .well, sorta works. . .


42 posted on 07/24/2005 5:06:43 PM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Xenalyte
Of everything allegedly written by a professional writer, this has to be the worst-punctuated story I have ever read.

Stop being a critic.

43 posted on 07/24/2005 5:06:57 PM PDT by Temple Owl (19064)
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To: kingattax

Moccasins are mean snakes and aggressive; bet it came up the sewer line as other posters have stated. There are cases where pythons have done so in apartment buildings. What has always concerned me is what happens if they chose to do so when one cannot see what is going on in the toilet bowl (if you catch my drift)?


44 posted on 07/24/2005 5:07:15 PM PDT by E=MC<sup>2</sup> (Are liberals born stupid, or do they have to work at it???)
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To: kingattax
Having lived in the South woods for almost two years, I have learned to always:
45 posted on 07/24/2005 5:08:02 PM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: upchuck

And when in doubt. . .ladies first.

;-)


46 posted on 07/24/2005 5:08:36 PM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: kingattax
...but no one knows what happened to the snake or how it got into the house in the first place.

Shoulda given that role to Johnny Fontaine.

47 posted on 07/24/2005 5:09:00 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: kingattax

That snake is a terrorist... he's an illegal alien... he's not supposed to be there... Bad snake, bad snake!


48 posted on 07/24/2005 5:12:11 PM PDT by ChristianDefender (If you can't fight with M16/M4.. then use prayer, if not just choose whose side are You!)
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To: tubebender; Eaker; Squantos; Pete-R-Bilt

I'm having a leave-the-seat-up-stupid moment.


49 posted on 07/24/2005 5:13:45 PM PDT by glock rocks (give a man a program - frustrate him for a day... teach a man to program - frustrate him for life.)
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To: kingattax
Actually there are any number of ways for the snake to enter the house. Under the sink the opening around where the pipe are may not be sealed properly. In fact I've seen them where the opening weren't even capped. Same thing with venting hose for some dryer outlets ~ the hole is often larger than hose leaving an open area all around.

On two seperate occasions our son has a copperhead in his home ~ one they found in the master bathroom and one was in their kitchen. We helped them make a thorough search for places where they might be entering. I was actually kind of surprised to realize all the normally unnoticed and small openings where a snake could gain entry.

50 posted on 07/24/2005 5:14:48 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: kingattax

The most amazing thing to me is that a film crew actually filmed her toilet for the "Action News" or whatever!


51 posted on 07/24/2005 5:16:20 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Thanks for the information.

I guy I knew years ago was bitten by a rattler in NMexico. He ended up losing his arm despite the quick treatment. Also, I heard the boy scout camp I used twice in the Canal Zone (Camp Chagres) was closed because of Fer-De-Lance bites......unsure of that reasonable rumor though.

Vipers.....dangerous little critters


52 posted on 07/24/2005 5:16:41 PM PDT by Loud Mime (thotline.com)
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To: Temple Owl
It's a nature thing.;

Well it's a nature thing if you go off the front porch like I do.

Now they have come along with the Metrosexual thing, wanting men to sit when they go also. I found it really difficult to sit in the shower.

53 posted on 07/24/2005 5:16:56 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: Paloma_55
Paloma, it ain't quite so easy as all that, pard'ner!

Lights; Sound of Water' Seat Up, etc...No biggie.

At my age, the problem is finding the critter in the first place...never mind aiming it!!! **S**

Everyone, please have a great week.
54 posted on 07/24/2005 5:17:57 PM PDT by dk/coro
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To: higgmeister

Mine too, but I wasn't thinking geography...


55 posted on 07/24/2005 5:18:59 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: kingattax

Reminds me of the good old days of lugging a lighter or matches to the outhouse, and listening for noises and peering into the dark for furtive movements.


56 posted on 07/24/2005 5:20:20 PM PDT by kcar (theUNsucks.com)
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To: upchuck
The scorpions in Austin made me a believer of all those rules but, even then, you weren't guaranteed you wouldn't encounter one unexpectedly. I have a friend there who was stung while sleeping after a scorpion dropped from the light fixture over the bed ~ which they are know to do.
57 posted on 07/24/2005 5:20:30 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: kingattax; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton; Jeremiah Jr; null and void; martin_fierro; general_re
Snake In Toilet Bites Woman

Could be worse.

58 posted on 07/24/2005 5:21:00 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: kingattax
I just killed 2 of them on my lanai (back porch) on the same day. One was good sized (2.5 feet) and nasty (aggressive) as any snakes I have had to deal with over the years. If it was in the commode, then it probably came up through the drain line, and disappeared the same way (hence why they can't find it). Do they have a septic tank that may have been breached anywhere in the drain field? Could be the way it got in.

Whatever, the only good water moccassin is a dead one!

59 posted on 07/24/2005 5:22:32 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase ("Every man dies, but not every man truly lives...." Braveheart)
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To: Graybeard58; Old Seadog

I actually looked it up before I posted. Mongooses is correct.


60 posted on 07/24/2005 5:23:46 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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