Woman is mowing her lawn in the 102-degree Texas heat. Riding a lawnmower.
A four-foot venomous snake falls from the sky, lands on her arm, and wraps around it.
The more she struggles to pull the snake off her arm, the tighter it holds on.
A hawk appears from the sky, grabs the snake with its talons, and takes off. The hawk is so powerful that the woman’s arm is jerked into the air as the hawk attempts to take flight.
After a moment of struggle, the hawk releases the snake and returns to the sky.
The snake continues to constrict the woman’s arm so tightly that her hand turns black.
The lawnmower continues to zigzag across the lawn while all of this happens.
The hawk dives and stabs again at its prize, failing again to extract the snake from her arm.
The hawk dives three more times – four in total – and finally wounds the reptile badly enough that it releases the woman’s arm and is carried away by the hawk.
The woman is rushed to the hospital by her husband, where she is treated for claw marks, lacerations, cuts, and punctures. It turns out that the hawk was doing as much damage to her arm as it was to the snake.
Despite the snake’s repeated attempts to bite her, she managed to avoid its venomous fangs.
The world can be a scary place at times. Now we have four-foot snakes plummeting from the sky to worry about, too.
Don’t look up.
