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A Texas girl has recalled the horror of being attacked by a snake and a hawk similtaneously she moved the garden.
Peggy Jones was using the mower on the property in Silsbee when out of nowhere a snake fell from the sky and landed on her arm.
The snake, which measured greater than 4 toes in size, then grabbed maintain of the shocked grandmother-of-four’s proper arm and wouldn’t let go.
“I immediately began thrusting my arm, trying to knock the snake off,” she instructed CNN. “And as I was thrusting my arm, the snake just wrapped around my arm – and he started striking at my face.”
But inside seconds a hawk which had seemingly simply dropped its dinner on her attacked her to try to reclaim the snake.
The 64-year-old says that the hawk made 4 makes an attempt to seize the snake from off her arm, turning into extra aggressive at every try earlier than lastly grabbing it and flying away.
Texas girl Peggy Jones has recalled the horror of being attacked by a snake and a hawk similtaneously she moved the garden
(CNN/Peggy Jones)
“I’m screaming during this whole time, ‘Help me, Jesus! Please, help me, Jesus!’” she instructed The Washington Post.
Ms Jones’s husband Wendell, who was additionally mowing the property, rushed to her when he heard the screaming and instantly took her to hospital for therapy.
Texas girl Peggy Jones has recalled the horror of being attacked by a snake and a hawk similtaneously she moved the garden
(CBS News/Peggy Jones)
Doctors assured her that the puncture marks on her arm weren’t snake bites however stab wounds made by the hawk’s talons because it tried to retrieve its prey.
She instructed the newspaper that regardless of her wounds therapeutic, the incident has left her badly shaken.
“Everything is off,” she stated and added that she doesn’t suppose “it’ll ever be totally normal again. I think I’ll always have some fears.”
“It’s probably been the most terrifying thing that’s ever happened in my life.”
And she added: “It was a very bizarre, harrowing experience. And I just thank God I’m alive to still tell about it.”
