Snake And Hawk Attack Woman At The Same Time

A snake and a hawk attacked a woman at the same time on the same day.

A snake fell out of the sky and landed on a woman mowing her lawn. And then she was attacked by a hawk.

I saw this story on the news this week, and all I could think was: "Ok -- maybe my week wasn't so bad..."

Peggy Jones was on her tractor, mowing her lawn in Silsbee, Texas on Tuesday afternoon - as she does often. She told the Silsbee Bee, a community newspaper, "suddenly a snake fell on her, wrapping around her arm. The snake was squeezing so hard, and I was waving my arms in the air."

As that was happening, she said a hawk was swooping down clawing at her arm over and over.  Jones says she just kept saying, "Help me, Jesus, Help me, Jesus.’’

The hawk eventually ripped the snake off of her arm and flew away with it. Jones thinks the hawk came down on her at least four times while trying to get the snake. She says blood was everywhere. Her husband heard what was going on and came running.

“I was yelling and screaming. He didn’t know what I was saying." She thought she was bit by the snake.

Her husband took her to the hospital where she was treated for cuts from the hawk and bruising from the snake squeezing her arm so tightly. There was no snake bite, but she was monitored for a bite just in case.

But, Jones did discover how close she really came to being bitten by the snake. She said she the lens on her glasses were broken -- and there was snake venom on her glasses. AAUUGGHHHH!!!!

Jones says people told her that she must be the unluckiest person alive to have a hawk-and-snake attack at the same time. I say it’s the opposite, and she's the luckiest person alive because she survived. Time to buy a lottery ticket or two!

By the way, this is not her first encounter with a snake. Peggy Jones survived being bitten by a venomous snake a few years ago.

In true Texas style, Peggy has already been back on her tractor. She did have her husband walk next to her on the first ride back -- just to keep an eye out for flying animals.

No one seems to know where the snake came from or how it literally fell on her from the sky! And that's why I don't live in Texas.

(A big shout-out to local, community journalism. Peggy Jones was first interviewed by the Silsbee Bee, a community newspaper. It was posted on social media and that’s where it first broke!)

Motivational posters. You see them in a lot of offices, and major corporations love to adorn their walls with them.

The original "Hang in there baby," with the cat clinging to a chin up bar, or a piece of bamboo, was first motivational poster. It was published in late 1971 as a poster by Los Angeles photographer Victor Baldwin. It has since become a popular relic of the 1970s. But did it motivate people?

The poster definitely struck a chord with 1970s Americans, and it became one of the best-selling posters of the era. Victor Baldwin received letters from people telling him the poster had helped them through difficult life events including recovery from surgery.

Baldwin himself said "(the kitten) gave solace and strength to people everywhere, in all sorts of trouble, including myself." By 1973, the 'hang in there kitty' had sold 350,000 copies at $2.00 each.

He lived for a time solely on the income from that now iconic poster, and took a break from his studio work for a while. Something he admitted he would rather be doing than selling posters.

It's a bit of a different world now. People seem to need a little more than a "Hang in there, baby!"

That's why DE-MOTIVATIONAL posters have become so popular. Viv la sarcasm! And cynicism. They've become America's second and third languages.  

I walked into an office many years ago and saw a framed poster of forks, with one bent. It said," Unique: Just because you are unique does not mean you are useful." I thought it was hilarious!

The company called Despair says they had a dream - to crush other people's dreams. After all, they say "the Motivation Industry has been crushing dreams for decades, selling the easy lie of success you can buy. That's why we decided to differentiate ourselves- by crushing dreams with hard truths." See? Sarcasm!

They say, Motivational products don't work. but our demotivational products "don't work even better!"

Here are some actual, and funny, de-motivational messages now hanging in offices. It's all about humor, which we desperately need!