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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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Years ago I hardly ever turned on the light when I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. One night I did and there was a slug crawling on the seat. Now the light goes on rvery time, even in the daytime ;-)
snakes are generally "tagged" sub-Q with a transmitter. You scan the snake to read it!
hahahahaha!!!!
I take a 1/4 tab of viagra every morning, so I don't pee on my shoes.
LOL! It all goes to the same place.
What is it with women? They can't look to put the seat down, and they can't look to see if a friggin water mocassin is in the toilet.
That would definately cause a high pucker-factor.
No, I am not teasing you. This is true.
Some day I will tell you of a South American tiny catfish which inflicts a terrible trauma to the urethra.
ELAINE: Ever hear of...holding it in?
GEORGE: Oh, no...no, that's very bad for the kidneys.
more than I wanted to know. visuals in the mind are worse than pictures on the screen.
With antivenom , the kid would have lived.
I tried to keep it as scientific as possible. It does conjour an image, though, doesn't it.
You could get uromycotisis and die!
I always thought you predicted the future, not the past. But what do I know?
"certainly could have been worse" ping
a very aggresive animal, for a snake.
Maybe that is why my toilet has been flushing rather sluggishly. OMG, now I may have to start using a thunder mug and then emptying it into the toilet. Just thinking about it gives me the heegeebees.
ELAINE: No, that's not it!
GEORGE: Oh, I think it is! I think that's exactly what it is!
Stories like this on FR: I generally read the first 10 posts. Invariably, the FUNNIEST responses are within the first 10.
Congrats! You win!
LOL... oh the memories, eh?
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