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Snake possibly burns down home
WAFB.com ^ | Mar 21, 2013 | staff reporter

Posted on 03/22/2013 3:41:22 AM PDT by Daffynition

Authorities believe a homeowner's response to finding a snake in her yard may have led to the fire that destroyed her house Wednesday.

The fire sparked at a home in Bowie County, TX just before 7 p.m.

"While cleaning up, she saw snake, threw gasoline on the snake, lit the snake on fire," said Deputy Randall Baggett with the Bowie County Sheriff's Office. "The snake went into the brush pile and the brush pile caught the home on fire."

Despite the efforts of several fire departments that responded to the scene, the flames completely engulfed the home. It is a complete loss. A neighboring home was also damaged on one side.

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To: green pastures; Makana
My goodness, How big, bad was the snake!


21 posted on 03/22/2013 6:03:47 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Tax-chick

No word about *blonde* being involved either.


22 posted on 03/22/2013 6:08:49 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Daffynition

Poor snake. People need to get a grip when it comes to snakes. This woman just lost her house because she freaked out over a snake in her yard.

Grow a set people.


23 posted on 03/22/2013 6:25:39 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Daffynition

Good thing the snake wasn’t driving an SUV


24 posted on 03/22/2013 6:28:45 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: BCW

Yours is a truy offensive post. Snakes generally, even cobras, are hugely beneficial animals tha do far more good than harm. Comparing the subhuman, America and American hating communist, secret Mudslime Illegal to a cobra is a horrible libel on snakes generally and cobras in particular.


25 posted on 03/22/2013 6:55:29 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: pepsionice

Here’s another snake story - We’d gone to the farm to check on grandpa while grandma was in the hospital. It had been a long trip so mother jumped out of the car and rushed to the bathroom. She immediately ran back outside yelling about a snake in the toilet. We ignored her while we unloaded the car. and she kept hollering and refused to go back inside. She had to do her business out back and wouldn’t stop about the snake. I finally went into the bathroom and looked all around but no snake. Snakes are everwhere out there but couldn’t find it. The toilet was old and rusty on the bottom and when someone walked across the floor, the water in the bowl move so I thought it was some sort of rusty reflection in the moving water. She kept on and on which is something she never does so grandpa pour a bucket of gas down it. A gallon of gas was grandpa’s go to solution for everything. Well, a bunch of white chunks of something came bubbling up so I sat down in front of it to watch when all of a sudden a huge snake shot out of there and smashed me in the face. I ran to the hall yelling, mother was yelling on top of the coffee table and grandpa ran to the kitchen yelling for someone to shut the door, lol. Prim and proper mother cussed at him to shut the bleepin’ door his bleepin’ self. The 6 foot racer snake was going crazy from the gas and was climbing the walls. I got the door shut and grandpa went out to get the hoe. By the time he got back, the snake had crawled under the gap under the door (old farm house where the floors sagged and the door was always too short so large gap) at me so I jumped onto the couch. Grandpa finally got him and said noises from the toilet had woken him up all week so that he’d had to put a rock to hold the lid down, well duh. Mother was mad the entire visit.

Another story - A couple years before that, I’d gone out to the farm house to get some stuff I’d stored there. A storm was coming in and the wind was blowing everything around so I was rushing to close up and get on the road. I was trying to hang onto an armload of clothes hangers while trying to get the pad lock on the door, the wind was blowing the old screen door against my leg and had gotten hooked to my jeans. I kept kicking the door away, scrambling the hangers and kicking some more and fumbling the keys and locks and kicking and wind blowing my hair in my face and kicking some more and having a heck of a time with it all. Finally got the door secured and reached down to get my jeans unhooked but it wasn’t the screen - it was another 6’ racer. He’d done a figure eight around my legs. One moment I was on the porch and somehow the next moment I was in the road.


26 posted on 03/22/2013 7:28:04 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Daffynition

instant karma.


27 posted on 03/22/2013 7:51:30 AM PDT by clio morrel (smoking is healthier than facism.)
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To: Fresh Wind
If it was a black snake, hate crime charges will be filed.

It's black now.

28 posted on 03/22/2013 7:54:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Daffynition

The local Fox anchor, Tim Ryan, this morning basically called the lady stupid. I like him. He’s hilarious.


29 posted on 03/22/2013 7:54:46 AM PDT by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: Daffynition

More like “Stupid Human Burns Down Home.”


30 posted on 03/22/2013 7:55:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: green pastures

I agree. Serves the idiot right!


31 posted on 03/22/2013 8:39:30 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: manic4organic
Where's a man when ya need 'em?


32 posted on 03/22/2013 8:40:11 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Doogle

“...poison ivory..”

Hahah, must be a new strain of elephant!


33 posted on 03/22/2013 8:42:28 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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34 posted on 03/22/2013 8:43:30 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: libstripper

your right...next time I’ll ask the cobra if he doesn’t mind me using his likeness in a campaign against Comrade O...


35 posted on 03/22/2013 8:44:05 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: nuconvert
...or on a plane.


36 posted on 03/22/2013 8:49:17 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: nuconvert; Daffynition
"Good thing the snake wasn’t driving an SUV"

So far, we've only been able to get him to navigate.


37 posted on 03/22/2013 10:13:11 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi
Or play a rap artist.


38 posted on 03/22/2013 10:35:45 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Daffynition
My daughter laughed at that pic. Here she is with a couple of her snakes...  photo IMG_2198_zps89ac57ca.jpg

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39 posted on 03/22/2013 10:44:57 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: SgtHooper

*smiles*...shuuussssshh before the full cup of coffee


40 posted on 03/22/2013 10:45:51 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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