2y ago

Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her

www.bbc.co.uk Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her

A passing hawk drops a serpent on Peggy Jones as she mows grass, leading to a three-way struggle.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1224173

Archived version: https://archive.ph/bGM0f
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809011604/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66446697

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Neat story, but how is this world news?
- the geopolitical effects of this are wide ranging. Please treat it with more seriousness.
  
  Indeed, the U.S needs to ship more of these hawks to their allies overseas. We can't be deterred by those who might say providing a snake dropping hawks military aid package like this would be an escalation.
- Mildly interesting?.. doesn't exactly effect The World, though.
  Edit: a letter...
- It might be a strech to call it news, but consider it a palette clenser. And in this case BBC is the publisher that called it news.
- It happened in America and is being covered by British news, so clearly it is internationally significant.
- It's news that occurred somewhere in the world, I guess. That's what all the "US news is world news!" people were saying in the meta thread.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her lawn last month when a passing hawk dropped a snake on her before swooping down to angrily try to reclaim its meal.
The snake wrapped itself around her arm and began striking her face as the bird sunk its talons deep into her flesh.
The bizarre incident took place on 25 July in the town of Silsbee, Texas, near the Louisiana border.
The hawk struggled to remove the snake from Mrs Jones body, stabbing her with its talons repeatedly as it attempted to snatch back its food.
"There were puncture wounds, cuts, abrasions, scratches and severe bruising," she said, adding that the snake's attacks to her face damaged her glasses.
Mrs Jones described the attack as severely traumatic, adding that she thought she was going to die and has had trouble sleeping since it happened.
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- Take that, Australia!
  
  ‘Murica upgraded to precision guided Dropsnakes!

When nature says "fuck you in particular"

Sis really rolled a nat 1 on lawn mowing, huh.

Terrible luck, but she'll have the wildest story for her friends.

If a crow watched this happen it's game over.

Yeah great, but what about the snake?

c/brandnewsentence

Well look at the size of her frickin lawn. She must have to mow 24x7. Eventually a hawk was bound to drop a snake on her. It was just a matter of time.

Is she safe now? @BrikoX

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