Posted on 05/20/2021 4:16:24 PM PDT by Cecily
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Heatherly Noble didn't have time to think. She felt pain, then spotted a large snake rising out of the bush in front of her.
"In about two seconds I had to realize that one, you've been bitten by a snake, I don't know what kind it is. Secondly, it's there it's not going away because it's mad," she said.
The Mooresville homeowner was trimming her hedges outside her front door when the snake bit her in the hand. Horrified by the sight of the creature rising up, Heatherly stepped back not realizing she was still on her ladder.
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“Heatherly”? She should mail her parents a (nonvenomous!) black snake.
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It’s a harmless black snake.
This is irresponsible reporting.
Harmless
A frog might get her next.
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I wonder if that is a surname somewhere in her family, like her mother’s maiden name.
I hate when snakes jump out of hedges at me.
I’m surprised that the snake didn’t head for the ground as soon as it sensed movement on the top of the hedges near it.
Does anybody remember the scene in Bananas where Woody Allen and the other rebel volunteers were in the jungle being taught. The instructor repeated if someone is bitten by a snake you “suck out of the poison” and they all got really bored.
Later a young woman ran past holding her breast yelling “I have been bitten by the snake.” All the men rushed to help her.
Snake *ping*
Harmless snake. It was probably startled by the hedge trimmer. If somebody used a machine to cut through my house, I might bite them too.😂😂😂. What is even funnier is all the crap about what you should do if you find a snake on your property. If it’s a water moccasin, coral snake, copperhead or rattler, you have a problrm. Otherwise, IGNORE it.
Black snake
Common in the south
An invasive species making its way through trailer park corpulence in search of congress
We have lots of copperhead here in NC. I see them all the time.
Last week my dog was bitten by one and had to go to the vet.
A few years ago my wife stepped on one in the carport at night and it nailed her in the ankle. She drove to the hospital immediately and got a copperhead anti-venom shot. It cost $25,000! The insurance paid $12,000+.
Copperheads freeze rather than flee, and they blend in so good that they often get stepped on. Then they bite in self defense.
I carry a 4’ snake rod in my vehicle and use it several times a year. Local groups relocate them away from populated areas.
sorry, I’ve been there. I’d like to say that I manfully cut that sucker in half with the hedge clippers when I found myself eyeball to eyeball with a snake perched in my hollies.
nope. I departed the area with great alacrity, abandoning the hedge clippers to their fate. my wife said I also screamed like a girl, but I doubt her version of events. she was doubled over laughing for quite some time afterwards. I suspect it effected her memory.
Black mamba.
Don’t feel bad. Our atavistic fear of/aversion to snakes goes back to Garden of Eden.
I doubt it. Tacking -ly onto girls’ names and -son onto boys’ names has been a fad for quite a while.
Well, I’m glad I’m not Cecilyly. Maybe “Lee” or “Leigh” as a middle name morphed into “ly” tacked on.
Well done, because one can’t always have a spade or machete at hand when doing yard work. Dead snake = good snake.
Good idea. That could explain it.
It’s a harmless black snake.
This is irresponsible reporting.
Harmless
A frog might get her next.
Amen.
The “news” these days is filled with pussified morons looking for ratings.
One must look no further than Today on NBC in the morning to realize how damned far we’ve fallen.
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