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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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SHUT UP!!!! I can't stand even THINKING about this!
Lol....EXACTLY!
We moved into a new subdivision that is surrounded by lakes (used for flood control, but they are pretty). The past 4 weeks, our neighbors that back up to the lake have had a series of snakes slither into their yard. One of them was about 7 feet long! They put up a snake fence, but I think they are coming from the neighbors that don't have the barrier.
Reminds me of when I found a snake skin under the dryer in the garage when I went to replace a belt.
I look very closely when I'm in the garage now!
I would have to move. Just have to.
Saw a tv docu several years ago about the Brown Tree Snake.
This snake is a great climber, which has invaded pacific islands (the story was about Guam, I believe), and is eating all the birds & their eggs - decimating native populations.
Additionally, at lease 1 resident had been bitten in their privates while sitting on the john. Seems the snake had entered the toilet via the toilet vent pipe on the roof. Poisonous, but not deadly to adults.
Check out this site for info: www.invasivespecies.gov/profiles/bts.shtml
Scary!
Spiders do it for me. I can handle snakes.
Spiders and wasps.
LOL
Vanity
Help identify this snake found in my bedroom! Please!!
Posted by Sweet_Sunflower29
On General/Chat 08/19/2002 5:26:11 PM PDT · 281 replies · 3,542+ views-- snip --
To: Lower55
ok...problem is im here alone and snake is under my foot.ergo-cant get a trash can, a pair of tongs or the damn thing outside. cats are watching it with wide eyes...lol
44 posted on 08/19/2002 5:43:46 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29CLICK HERE for the rest of that AMAZING thread
Scary. I would have to tear the house part looking for it. No way would I go to sleep not knowing if it was out of the house.
Are you trying to give me nightmares?
Where do you live? I'm coming over there...
I somehow think it would have just the opposite effect on me.
i saw a rattlesnake eating a dove! it was about 4'.
they get 6' long in az i'm told, if they're away from roads and car tires.
ROFLMFAO!!! If you can work in a Moe Green reference, you win the prize of the day! LOL!!!!
"We're currently very uncomfortable in our home," Alicia Bailey said. "And toilet shy, I would say."
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Now that's a Jeff Foxworthy You might be a Redneck skit for sure. Can you imagine the words if she had not been bit until after she sat down.
lol
Too many commas? Commas not in the right place?
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