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A Texas woman was left with brutal injuries after she was viciously attacked by both a snake and a hawk while mowing her lawn. 

Peggy Jones told how she’d been on a tractor mower when the snake fell out of the sky and landed on her at her home in Silsbee.

As it began to tighten around her arm, a hawk then swooped down, and began clawing at a defenseless Jones in an effort to grab its prey.

Beat THAT, Australia.

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        2. Wow, that was a biggin’. Swallowed that shark whole.
          Farted like a krak ho.
          Then eased back to the crib for a long nap.

  2. I can certainly see that happening. I live in a suburb between Houston and Galveston. Right in the middle of the neighborhood I’ve seen hawks swoop down and snatch up snakes, rodents, toy poodles, etc. and then roost on someone’s roof and eat it. I’ve seen one hawk get territorial and buzz bomb large dogs and people walking down the sidewalk. I saw one hit a german shepherd and knock it for a loop before flying off. Crazy stuff.

    1. If Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette show up in your town, it’s time to leave.

      1. Suzanne Pleshette!!!!!!

        Watching re-runs of the Bob Newhart show recently. If you can get past the stupid 70’s hairstyle, she was definitely a looker! And that voice!! Yummy.

  3. we have owls around us from time to time. Hawks come and go. I wish both would stay and take care of the wood mouse population. Those mice have been getting uppity lately.

    JQ

  6. Along the same line, things that fall out of the sky . . . A good friend of mine who retired and moved from Dallas to a farm outside of Crawford. He was out walking one morning, about 15 years ago, with his wife when a small lamb fell out of the sky and almost hit them, the lamb was followed by an eagle which swopped down and picked it up and flew on its way. No people were injured in this story however my friend’s wife who is a bunny hugger was devastated from seeing the injured lamb get taken up in the sky to become bird food. I guess this stuff does happen.

  7. My geezer friends and I of the Senile and Surly Car Club were sitting outside of a Bagel shop on a Sunday morning when a young urban couple asked us for something to cut an entangled bird out of a parking lot hedge. We offered a pocket knife but that was too dangerous for their comfort so they kept looking and eventually found someone with scissors. We watched as they carefully cut the little bird free and set it loose. As it gained altitude, a bird of prey came out of nowhere and snatched it.

    After a few moments of silence, one of our younger members asked “What’s the difference between a falcon and a hawk?” My friend, Bill, said “One is a Ford.” and I said “The other is a Studebaker.”

    1. At one of my radio gigs we did a weekly public service interview program with the school district. One week my guest was a 4th grade teacher who had taken her students on a field trip to a poultry farm so she could show them the evils of industrial agriculture.

      At the end of the tour the teacher demanded that the plant manager liberate one of the enslaved chicks into the care of her and her class. The manager complied. They took the chick back to school, and named it Fluffy or something equally inane.

      They raised Fluffy and they loved Fluffy. One day they took Fluffy outside to bask in the embrace of Mother Earth and Father Sun. And a hawk or an eagle swooped down and snatched Fluffy up to the top of the building, and enjoyed its meal in front of the class.

      May we all return to the simplicities of nature, and the gentle tutelage to be discovered therein.

  9. I would say what about Africa but why would anyone mow a lawn in Africa? Even so, I think if that happened there the snake would be killed and eaten, the hawk likewise. The white lady mowing her lawn? Also killed and her home liberated and turned into a drug house. Africa wins again!

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