SILSBEE, TX — A series of truly unfortunate events set upon a Texas woman on a six-acre property that she and her husband owned in Silsbee, Texas, a town 23 miles north of Beaumont, on July 25. Peggy Jones was riding her tractor doing work in the yard when her day turned upside down.
Jones first encountered a snake that dropped seemingly out of thin air. The snake wrapped around her arm and attempted to bite at her face. Jones said she waved her arm in the air and did her best to keep the snake away from her.
“I immediately screamed and started swinging my arm to shake the snake off,” Ms. Jones, 64, said in an interview. “I was screaming, ‘Jesus, help me, please, Jesus, help me!’”
As if her situation could not become any worse, a hawk then flew out of the sky and attacked both her and the snake. The hawk seemed displeased that it lost its lunch earlier, and Jones paid the price. After a brief struggle, the Hawk finally dragged the snake away from Jones and flew off into the distance. Jones was left with several injuries all over her arms and had to receive medical attention. The attack left her arm scratched, bruised, and with several punctures.
Ms. Jones injured arm after the attack.
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Miraculously, however, she was never bitten by the snake. Her husband, Wendell Jones, heard his wife screaming and drove her to the hospital. When he asked what had happened, she was too frantic to make much sense.
“By the time I got to her, she was pretty hysterical,” Mr. Jones, 66, said in an interview. “It took me probably three minutes to actually understand what had happened.”
At the hospital, Ms. Jones received antibiotics, and her wounds were bandaged. Her glasses were chipped from the attack, and the doctors said that all her wounds did not result from a snake bite but from a hawk’s talons. Ms. Jones was released from the hospital later that same evening but still had a lot of recovering to do. Still, Ms. Jones believes she is fortunate despite what many of her newfound supporters tell her.
Peggy Jones, 64
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“I consider myself to be the luckiest person alive,” she said. “I was attacked by a snake and a hawk, and I lived to tell about it.”
From what anyone can tell, the hawk caught the snake and was bringing it back to eat. The hawk must have dropped the snake, which subsequently fell on Ms. Jones. The hawk then swooped down and attacked Ms. Jones in an attempt to take the snake back. The entire situation is a reminder of how dangerous some wild animals can be.
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That looks like the way my whole body felt after a meeting with my last ex-wife and her attorney. Speaking MUCH more seriously, I hate this happened to this lady and am glad her injuries were no more serious and that she is recovering. I wish her a continued full and rapid recovery.
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PermalinkGood grief, talk about being in the wrong spot at the wrong time! Amazing that the hawk would challenge what it would see as a larger animal for the snake, but then it did save her from snake bite.
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