She "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.
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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.
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LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP! How many times do I have to tell you?
I don't buy the woman's story about how she got bitten.
The fangs of a water moccasin are curved inward, requiring the snake to nearly dislocate its jaw to inflict a bite. For that reason, most snake bites are on small areas of the body, like the ankle or wrist, not something as large as a thigh. Next, why would a snake travel an entire house for something as small and remote as a toilet for its water source? And then, how did it get under a closed lid? Obviously she was bitten, but why the elaborate story that makes no sense. Only she knows her reasons.