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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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PLEASE don't let my wife see this. She'll never use a toilet again.
We have western diamondbacks at the target range I shoot at. After last year's fires, we could see them crawling around the burnt over brush looking for food. Normally they wouldn't go near people, at least they haven't up to now, but what with the fire. . .
That's one serpent you never want to get close to.
So very true. And DON'T stop being a critic, btw. It matters.
A fellow I work with went to set on the pot and looked thru his legs at a large rat as he was sitting down. He flew out of the john at a high rate of speed.
Try the kitchen sink sometime. You can relieve yourself AND get some exercise for the tippy toes at the same time!
Yes, and it does not need to be a venomous snake for that. Their mouthsss & sssaliva are real cessss pitsss.
Also you can get Osteomyelitis. These are just free added bonuses to any venom.
We treated a teen for osteo after he literally played with a rattler in the SoCal desert, while high on acid. He lost a finger tip, and most of his thumb on one hand.
ROTFLMAO
<<< shudder >>>
You couldn't get me back into the house...ever.
{{{shudder}}}
DITTOS......... Polly.....who just jumped when grandson entered the room!!! Am I scared of snakes?? YOU BETCHA!!!!!!!!!
He's still goin, too.
Try the kitchen sink sometime. You can relieve yourself AND get some exercise for the tippy toes at the same time!
But sooner or later, everybody's got to sit down somewhere :-)
Perhaps you have the "lid" confused with the "toilet seat"? If you're a man, I'm willing to bet that this error in identifying toilet parts correctly is rather distressing to your wife, or other females in your family. LOL ;)
Sounds like a good reason to leave the toilet seat up. More likely to notice snakes with seat up.
LOL, that looks just like him.
Damn that Eve and her apple...
I hate these snakes. I was looking down at the Bayou one day and there on a log was a WM digesting something. I wish I had had a gun. Yuk.
Oh yeah. I'm scared to death of bugs too.
Just so darn ugly.
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.From the slide show (!) posted at www.nbc4.tv:
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