VIDEO HERE (2:41 minutes)
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Am I wrong for laughing through the entire video? I mean, here she is doing her thing outside and a fucking snake 'falls out of the sky' and lands on her, then attacks her, then she's nailed by a hawk trying to get its lunch back. Seriously, what are the odds?
"I took that Dodge, Truck Hemi and was flying through town" God Bless Texas
ReplyDeleteI would have spent the rest of the day inside my house
ReplyDeleteJD
OMFG! An experience right up there with being tied to a chair and forced to watch "The View" on a loop for 2 days straight.
ReplyDeleteDang it. Here I thought that the incident had been caught on camera. Maybe next time this happens we'll get lucky.
ReplyDeleteJohn G.
I love how her first coping move was to get a stuffed rattlesnake to cuddle with. "I am NOT going to come down with a phobia over this!"
ReplyDeleteSo, so close. If she'd only somehow gotten a cactus involved, she'd have the whole Mexican flag.
ReplyDeleteFor the win.
DeleteI wonder if that hawk was just looking for an easy meal or do you think it could have actually been trying to protect the woman?
ReplyDeleteI think the hawk dropped the snake on her. The woman just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
DeleteAh ha, the ol drop the snake on a cactus but missed and hit a human trick. I thought it had fallen out of a tree. Black snakes are famous for dropping out of trees on yer head.
DeleteI would either have had a heart attack or
ReplyDeleteSeverely crapped my pants or all the above. Hate snakes.
In the Mestizo Mexican Indian lore, that's a holy oracle sign from the creator that this is the land given to you to claim and build upon.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't surprise me. I once watched a fully mature red tail hawk pick up a skunk, carry it about a hundred feet in the air and drop it and then follow it down. Never thought I'd see a skunk falling out of the sky. I think this also explains a bluegill I found laying in the yard once while I was mowing the grass. There are a lot of hawks around doing weird shit In Texas.
ReplyDeleteRecommended Reading: The poem "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes. https://allpoetry.com/hawk-roosting
And a lot of turkey buzzards doing stupid shit here in Texas. One flew straight into my grill just today as it was taking off from a kill on a backwoods road. Dull thud and nothing but feathers behind as I continued merrily on my way. Stupid birds.
DeleteF*ckin' Wendell. 'So I'm thinkin', yes you are hysterical'
ReplyDeleteNo shit had a fish fall out of the sky, landed next to me while working on my fence gate. Looked up saw an eagle and a hawk flying near each other. I don't know which one had the fish, but one of them dropped it. Looked around, all the other birds in the area were flying away!
ReplyDeleteCoulda been worse, lady. Just be glad it wasn't a jagular*.
ReplyDelete*Jagulars are fearsome honey-stealing, predatory jaguar-like animals found in the Hundred Acre Woods. Jagulars** hide up in trees and shout "Helloooo!" and when you look up to see what the noise is...they drop on you.
**No real Jagular has ever been actually seen, raising doubts about their very existence.
- Christopher Robin
Dead men tell no tales.
DeleteSounds like a Side Hill Wompas. Legs shorter on one side becuase they always walk around hills in the same direction.
ReplyDeleteFred in Texas, Raptors drop their prey to kill it so it doesn't fight back. Then they stoop down to pick up the unresisting victim for a leisurely lunch. Unless it's a small animal that they can control easily.
ReplyDeleteI hope Zarathustra got his companions back.
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