A Texas lady mentioned she was attacked by a snake that “fell from the sky” and was then attacked by a hawk that was attempting to get to the snake.
SILSBEE, Texas – A girl in Silsbee, Texas, says she is grateful to be alive after being attacked concurrently by a snake and hawk.
“I can’t say I understand how it feels to die as a result of I’m nonetheless alive, however I actually assume I acquired shut,” Peggy Jones instructed FOX 26 in Houston.
Peggy and her husband, Wendell, had been mowing the garden exterior their dwelling north of Silsbee two weeks in the past. Whereas they had been reducing the grass, Peggy says she felt and noticed a snake fall from the sky and wrap round her arm.
A Texas lady mentioned she was attacked by a snake that “fell from the sky” and was then attacked by a hawk.
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“Your instincts are simply to sling it off,” she mentioned. “Then, as an alternative of slinging off, he wrapped round my arm. As I’m slinging, he’s hanging, hanging, hanging my glasses. All you can see was what regarded like an enormous white mouth coming at your face.”
Peggy mentioned she wasn’t certain what sort of snake landed on her arm however mentioned it was a darkish brownish-black colour. The snake by no means bit her however got here shut, hanging and cracking the glasses on her face.
“All I might keep in mind pondering [was] ‘I don’t wish to die right here, I can’t eliminate the snake, Jesus assist me,’” she mentioned. “It was horrifying. It’s virtually prefer it wasn’t actually occurring, but it surely was occurring.”
Because the snake tried hanging Peggy, a hawk tried grabbing the snake off her arm. After 4 makes an attempt, she mentioned the hawk was profitable and flew off with the snake.
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A Texas lady mentioned shes fortunate to be alive after she was attacked by a snake after which a hawk.
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“The hawk, his wings had been flapping, and I might really feel the wings on me [and] I might really feel the snake,” mentioned Jones. “I regarded down at my arm, and I’m coated in blood, my garments are bloody, and I might see tear marks the place the talons had gotten into my pores and skin. I might see punctures.”
Peggy’s husband heard the commotion and went working to assist.
“She wasn’t talking English,” Wendell mentioned. “She was screaming and crying, attempting to speak, however I couldn’t perceive something she mentioned. The primary phrases I heard had been, ‘a snake fell out of the air.’ So, I [was] pondering sure, you’re hysterical.”
Wendell rushed his spouse to the hospital, who was handled for the accidents brought on by the hawk. Footage present blood throughout her arm.
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A blurred picture displaying wounds a Texas lady suffered after she was attacked by a snake and hawk on the similar time.
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Peggy mentioned she’s recovering nicely bodily, however emotionally it’s been a problem. “The nightmares are horrific,” she mentioned. “They’re horrible.”
In keeping with the 64-year-old, she feels fortunate to have survived the simultaneous assaults. Now, she says she has a brand new look on life.
“Within the blink of a watch, within the snap of a finger, your life can change,” she mentioned. “You don’t know if it’s going to be a hawk and a snake, or a automobile wreck. I simply love everyone and every thing extra. Even after I eat a bit of chocolate now, it tastes so a lot better than it did.”
