A mother-of-four said she thought she was going to die after a large
snake crawled into her bed while she slept and bit her on the breast.
DailyRecord
reports that Caroline Griffin, 49, who had no idea if the four foot
snake was poisonous, said she woke up after feeling an unusual movement
beneath her sheets. Throwing back the duvet, Ms Griffin saw the large
snake resting on her chest. At first she thought her kids were playing
some sort of trick on her, then
she saw the snake move and she got the fright of her life.
As soon as she started screaming, the snake sank its fangs into her
breast chest leaving bruising and puncture marks. Caroline said she
thought she was going to die. But thankfully, the creature was a
harmless brown belly California kingsnake which had escaped from a
neighbour's home six months earlier.
News of her been bitten
spread along her street and a short time later the snake's owner Gareth
Niven, 21, arrived at her front door to collect it.
Mr Niven said the
snake, which he calls Hiss, had escaped from his tank six months
earlier and is likely to have been living in a derelict house that
separates his and Ms Griffin's properties.
Despite there being no
risk to Ms Griffin as a result of the bite, kingsnakes are constrictors
and the reptile may have killed her had it wrapped itself around her
neck.
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