Peggy Jones hasn’t slept much in the last 2 weeks. On a hot day in July, as she was doing some yard deal with her other half, Jones says something amazing occurred to her — a snake fell out of the sky and covered its body around her arm. Then, she says, a hawk stroked in and the 2 animals fought it out, with Jones in the crossfire.
Jones says the freak occurrence taken place on July 25 as she was cutting lawn on the property she and her other half own in Silsbee, Texas. “Just cutting the yard, minding my own business, out of the clear blue sky, a snake fell onto my arm,” she informed CBS News. “I presumed there was hawk bring it due to the fact that I was not anywhere near a tree.”
Another idea that the snake fell out of a bird’s beak as it was flying: A hawk stroked in next.
“As I was attempting to sling my arm and sling the snake off, the snake twisted around my arm,” she said. “The snake stood out in my face, it struck my glasses a number of times… I was slinging and slinging, he stood out and striking, and he simply kept holding on.”
Jones remained in the back of the property, while her other half was out front. She attempted to shout for help, and after that she began yelling for Jesus. “I was yelling, ‘Please Jesus, simply help me,'” she said tearfully.
Peggy Jones
“Then the hawk appeared simply as quick as the snake appeared,” Jones said. “The hawk got the snake that was twisted around my arm and pulled it like he was going to bring it away. And when he did, it flung my arm up. The hawk was bring my arm and the snake with it.”
The hawk could not right away get the snake detangled from Jones’ arm, she said. It stroked in about 4 times, its wings flapping around her, triggering a bloody brawl. Finally, the snake was launched from her arm, and Jones says she ran towards her other half, “hysterical” and covered in blood. Her lower arm had actually been ripped up by the hawk’s talons. Once she reached him, he could not understand what she was attempting to inform him, she said.
Her other half drove her to Altus Hospital. “There were leak injuries, cuts, abrasions, scratches and extreme bruising,” she said. The snake likewise dented her glasses as it attempted to strike her face.
Jones said she was offered prescription antibiotics and, due to the fact that they were uncertain in the beginning if the snake was poisonous, she kept up all night monitoring her injuries. “Not that I might’ve slept anyhow,” she said, including that she does not believe the snake bit her and stays uncertain what sort of snake it was.
Peggy Jones
The entire experience was distressing, she said. “I believe I entered into some sort of survival mode,” she said. “I believe the adrenaline took control of, and there was one point prior to the hawk came that I believed, ‘I can’t eliminate this… I’m going to pass away right here.'”
Two weeks later on, Jones’ arm is still bandaged up, and she said it’s not recovery as rapidly as she hoped.
“I’ve never ever had an issue sleeping,” Jones said. “But this, I’ve most likely gotten 7 or 8 hours amount to in the last 2 weeks.” She said she awakens stressed, seeming like she simply relived the experience.
Living in rural Texas, Jone said she’s seen wildlife such as hawks and snakes previously – however never ever like this. “In my life time, I’ve in fact seen a hawk get a snake. That’s something they do, that’s how they eliminate their victim,” she said. Now, it’s something she’s constantly going to bear in mind.
Hawks are a kind of predatory bird with sharp talons and beaks. They can reach a speed of over 150 miles per hour when diving and are thought about to have the very best vision in the animal world.
They hunt by identifying victim from a high perch and after that stroking down, frequently bring little animals away. They tend to consume little mammals like rats and bunnies, in addition to birds and reptiles, like snakes.
