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Woman Bitten By Snake Inside Her Home
September 12, 2013
A Bogia woman reported that she was bitten by a snake inside her home late Wednesday afternoon.
The 43-year old woman told dispatchers that she was inside her mobile home in the 200 block of East Bogia Road about 4:50 p.m. when a black or gray snake bit her foot. She waited outside for first responders to arrive.
Officials said she suffered a couple of scrape marks on her foot from the snake but no puncture wound. She was in no distress and not transported to the hospital. The snake had slithered away by the time first responders arrived, and they were unable to locate it.
The McDavid Station of Escambia Fire Rescue, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and Escambia County EMS responded to the call.
Pictured: A 43-year old woman was bitten by a snake inside her Bogia home Wednesday afternoon. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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15 Responses to “Woman Bitten By Snake Inside Her Home”
To Empathetic……
Rat Snakes are good. They kill rodents that chew electrical wires.
Might surprise you but Moth balls thrown under the trailer will keep rats and snakes away, if ya can stand the smell
Better to smell like granny than dead like Lazarus on the forth day?
As a cancer survivor who was very suddenly and unexpectedly widowed shortly after I finished chemo, I have nothing but empathy for this woman. Obviously she has no air conditioning, as evidenced by the box fan in the window. She has no money to take care of herself – that’s obvious. Open windows, weeds and grass waist high around her trailer? I’m sure she doesn’t choose to live that way.
Somebody out there is able to help her, if she will accept the help. I’m sure she will, after her experience yesterday! This can be your good deed for the whole year, if you’re willing. (I’m willing – I’m just not able.)
NOTE: Snakes can get inside any house, whether windows are open or not. If a mouse can get in, a snake can too. If you have mice, sooner or later a rat snake is going to come to the buffet!
@ Granny B: the Bible instructs us to “bear one another’s burdens.” Interested to see who volunteers to cut her grass first.
Most comments on here refer the tall grass….well, maybe some of us should be a nice neighbor and help cut her grass. Maybe her mower is tore up or she may not have the money to buy a lawn mower or money to pay someone to do it.
I will personal try to put together a group of young boys to see if we can do something to help her out
to you that suggest she/he cuts their grass, Be a good Neighbor and offer help. you might find it very rewarding to all.
I guess she doesn’t have a cat..
The best defense in this situation is a nicely trimmed lawn, especially around the house. Snakes and other undesirables like the cover that tall grass and weeds provide. I would also invest in an exterminator visit, just for the piece of mind….
yeah, thats a rough one. She has high grass, a front window open with plastic bars on it, and the explorer has windows down., All on top of the fact that she lives in Bogia (also known as Bogia Swamp)…. hmmm. Surprised this just now happened. It would be nothing for anything to crawl into her house or vehicle..
I doubt it was a Moccasin. Had it been, she would mostly likely have ended up at the hospital.
That being said, the snake thought it had a reason to be in there. Something attracted it. Maybe a mouse or another snake?
She definitely needs to cut her grass. She needs to consider other deterrents also like a snake repellent.
it slithered away? as in…in her house?
seriously….i’m pretty sure i’d just burn the house down. it’d be of no use to me anymore. It’d just be me and my trusty Explorer.
With that open window in the front, she’s lucky thats the only thing that has come inside.
WOW! Black or grey could easily have been a moccasin! I don’t think I’d go back in either. And CUT THAT GRASS!!! Might keep ‘em back.
And its still running loose in her home? I think I’d be packing!
I guess she just went on back in the trailer with the snake. If it slithered off in my trailer i would have to clear the trailer out before returning. Sleep well, mam.