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.
Caroline Griffin, 49, had no idea if the four foot snake was poisonous after it found its way beneath her duvet and sank its fangs into her chest while she slept at her home in Guardbridge, Fife.
Thankfully the creature was a harmless brown belly California kingsnake which had escaped from a neighbour's home six months earlier.
Describing the incident, Ms Griffin told the Daily Record: 'I was about to get up to get the kids ready to go to school when I threw the duvet back and saw it sitting on my chest.'
'I thought the kids were playing some sort of trick on me at first. Then I saw it move and I got the fright of my life.
'As soon as I started to scream, it bit me on the breast. It was quite sore... I thought I was going to die.'
As she suffered no immediate sickness as a result of the bite, Ms Griffin asked her children Laura, 24, Michael, 21, Emily 16 and DJ, 13, to take photographs of the snake and call the Scottish SPCA for assistance. She also told her neighbours what had happened.
News spread along the street and a short time later the snake's owner Gareth Niven, 21, arrived at her front door to collect it.
*I Have goose bumps...HATE SNAKES WITH A PASSION....OMG!
see how she is smiling..kai..snake on your chest??? olorun ma je
ReplyDeleteI wonder too o!is she flattered by the bite or d bite dey sweet am ni?
DeleteBizzare
ReplyDeleteStella please stop sending us stories on snakes. Every minute and seconds i'm checking the toilets. Sometimes my husband will tell me go and urinate that he is just coming out from the toilet, but i will insist on using the torch light esp. at night. Just like in one episode of BBA they were taken into snake house.YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKK. Paloma started crying. I felt for them.
DeleteGreat! Now I have to check my duvet every second,as if checking the toilet seat every time I want to pee is not enough!!
ReplyDeleteBLOG ANALYSER: I am just like u, living in fear of the unknown. Don't nothing of such will come close to us in Jesus name Amen. The funny thing now is that I close my toilet seater after using it.
DeleteLol. I am the new TSI-Toilet Seat Inspector
DeleteI can relate to the toilet seat checks! Lol
DeleteQueen Gelis lol @ ur comment. Seriously After that post abt a snake in the toilet, I don't dare go in2 the toilet without checking arnd thoroughly.. now this? God I hate anything that crawls...
Delete@blog analyser,amen my dear,@everyone its good to know I'm not alone in this snake phobia business.
DeleteThe woman even looks like a snake herself. Eerie!
ReplyDeleteReading these kind of stories can lead to demonic possession biko.
No be lie... She resemble snake
DeleteWot forest r u from? Gosh!
DeleteAnonymous 6:55, not everyone is from the forest and a representative of the Animal planet like you and your forebears you hear?
Deletedid you say HATE, dictionary is yet to find d right word for, I hate them more than the word hate. and dt owner ehnnn, u get luck say nor be Nigeria you dey. nonsense
ReplyDeleteOh lawd! I have to stop opening any post that has to do with snake. Like that post on snake been in the toilet wasn't enough will have to add this to the list of MUST do's. This is really scary and disgusting
ReplyDeleteAnd she is still smiling like this.....kai..
ReplyDeleteSee Pose na,thank God it wasn't so serious oo.
ReplyDeleteIf na naija now dem for don rush ha go church. Everytin na "enemies @ wrk" for naija. Lolz
ReplyDeleteLwkmd.....she de laugh sef.....that snake, na send dem send am.......
ReplyDeleteThe Snake like better thing sha. Na breast e go bite.
ReplyDeleteOMG! Dat snake picture is so horrible. I hate snakes. Y did I open dis post?? I won't be able to slip in d 9t... HELP!
ReplyDeleteEwwwww...stella enof of snakes *crying*
ReplyDelete#faints#,,,,Na wa oooooooo,oya one two I don park my load commot from that house. She dey even open dat her dracular teeth,.the snake sef wan suck breast,
ReplyDeleteOlodo sleekreek how she no go smile? U no read say na snake Wey no dey poisonous? Nigerians be like they sent it from her village.....
ReplyDeleteHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will have night mares today oh!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI swear that snake na witch... dem send am. All the way to her breasts,mbanu!
ReplyDeleteIt's situations like this why I will never sleep naked or without underwear. This could have easily been a cocroach or a rat gnawing at your woman parts...no thank you!
ReplyDeletena waooh. God hav mercy.
ReplyDeleteThis story is hanging on one leg
ReplyDeleteGod knows the neighbour go hear am what kind of carelessness is that, he even had the effontery to come and collect it back, if the snake was poisonous she might not live to tell the story..if this had happened in naija the snake would have been sentenced to roasting with petrol or hot pot of snake peppersoup
ReplyDeleteI had to switch off my image to read this story. I can't imagine sweing snakes at this hour of the night
ReplyDeleteThis is so scary:|
ReplyDeleteEwwww! See the way she's holding her boobs & smiling like she thoroughly enjoyed the bite,what will I not see???
ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only one that couldn't stand anything creepy-crawly... Eeeeekkk!!
ReplyDeleteStella abeg stop all this na... luckily I didn't see the pix of this one but I still flush the toilet BEFORE I use just incase anything is hiding underneath the rim, Imagine!