Posted on 03/24/2013 9:47:57 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Texas woman sets snake on fire, snake sets her house on fire
The woman was frightened by a snake outside her house, so she doused it with gas and had her son set it on fire. That plan didn’t work out so well.
A Texas woman burned her own house down during a heated battle with a snake.
The serpent frightened the lady while cleaning outside her home Wednesday night. She doused the limbless reptile in gasoline and called over her son to set it ablaze.
The plan backfired.
Her son tossed a lit match at the creeping reptile but it slithered into a nearby brush pile, bringing the flames with it. The brush pile, too, caught fire and soon spread to the family's home on Will Smith Rd. in Texarkana, Capt. David Grable of the Bowie County Sheriff's Department confirmed to the Daily News.
"We were trying to kill a snake with fire," the woman said during a 911 call. "It done caught the house."
"Caught the house?" asked the dispatcher.
"Yes, the house is on fire. Could you hurry up please?"
The Liberty Eylau Fire Department arrived at the scene to find the family's home completed destroyed and a neighbors' home significantly damaged.
"There were two homes close together. One of them is a total loss," said Jeff Neal, chief deputy at the sheriff's office.
Fire chief David Wesslehoft told CBS 12 News that burning animals have been known to ignite larger fires.
"With rabbits and big field mice, once they start burning the grass they get out of their hole," said Wesslehoft. "They have been known to catch on fire and take off."
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I once rented a place in the boonies of North Texas where I found dead snakes in the strangest places. The first one I ran across was - you guessed it - in the oven.
I guess it got in there during a cold winter, and someone turned the oven on one morning. No telling how long it had been there. I only found it because I had to do some repairs.
I know you’re joking but it just set me off this morning.
Gasoline is not dangerous. Gasoline is a chemical and thus is completely predictable.
People are ignorant and stupid. Thus they are completely unpredictable and thus dangerous as this stupid woman and her son (I don’t know the age of her son and so won’t necessarily say that he is stupid) demonstrated so well.
We rented a cottage on a river in the Hill Country of Texas near Fredericksburg one summer for a family vacation. There were scorpions in the pots and pans! I didn’t do much cooking.
I just remembered the name of the place — Kaehler Cottages — and it’s been 40 years.
I’m sure you didn’t do much sleeping either .. LOL
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