Woman’s house burned down by snake she set on fire

[rockin'robin]

One woman’s extreme reaction to finding a snake in her yard backfired in tragic fashion. After being set on fire, the flaming snake caused the woman’s home to burn down.

KSLA News reports that the house fire started in Bowie County, Texas, when the snake’s burning body came into contact with a nearby pile of brush.

“While cleaning up, she saw a snake, threw gasoline on the snake, lit the snake on fire,” Bowie County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Randall Baggett told the station. “The snake went into the brush pile, and the brush pile caught the home on fire.”

Oddly enough, a local fire department official says the incident isn’t as unique as one might think.

"Yes, it could happen with rabbits and big field mice,” Liberty Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft told the station. “Once they start burning the grass, they get out of their hole. They have been known to catch fire and then take off."

Naturally, we prefer stories in which the nonhuman players are the heroes, not the victims. For instance, in December, one alert chicken reportedly saved the life of its owners when its clucking woke them up during a fire. Or, the hero rabbit that saved a family when their house went up in flames.

The resulting fire at the Texas home was so intense it completely destroyed the home and even burned part of the neighbor’s house. Even worse for the homeowner, local authorities reserve the right to file charges against her.

Woman

 

[AlleyCat]

Damn.. Only in Texas ...

 

[NitroHonda]

Oddly enough, a local fire department official says the incident isn’t as unique as one might think.

Dousing animals with gasoline and then setting them on fire isn't all that unique? Wow. The dumbification of America.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Dousing animals with gasoline and then setting them on fire isn't all that unique? Wow. The dumbification of America.

Now that is what I call bad karma! What does around comes around. Poor snake .


When I saw a snake in the road , I stopped my car got out and moved the snake to safer place.

 

[Babyblue]

Wirelessly posted

Read an article a while back, that a person threw a rat into a bonfire. The flaming rat ran under their house. Burnt to the ground.

 

[Bottesini]

Poetic justice for the animal torturer.

 

[jonnyghost]

Dousing animals with gasoline and then setting them on fire isn't all that unique? Wow. The dumbification of America.

Heh, although you're probably right I think they where only referring to the flaming animal part. Burning fields is common in agriculture, only sad part is there is usually a lot of living creatures in there.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Heh, although you're probably right I think they where only referring to the flaming animal part. Burning fields is common in agriculture, only sad part is there is usually a lot of living creatures in there.

We have a field behind my condo and it will gone one day and we have a lot living creatures that hunt in the field , I agree is sad that no one think of the animals that call a field their home.

 

[rockin'robin]

It was a crazy thing to do...and if it were a poisonous snake that was set to strike...well, you've no other option but to kill it...but not in that manner...

We did kill a water moccasin last year that was found on our patio...they are deadly....and I was so very nervous for a long time, thinking their might be another one out there....And of course, my doggie goes out to the yard...

 

[NitroHonda]

It was a crazy thing to do...and if it were a poisonous snake that was set to strike...well, you've no other option but to kill it...but not in that manner...

We did kill a water moccasin last year that was found on our patio...they are deadly....and I was so very nervous for a long time, thinking their might be another one out there....And of course, my doggie goes out to the yard...

I have no problem with you wanting to kill it. It's just the whole "douse 'em with gasoline" thing that I have an issue with.

 

[jonnyghost]

Exactly, I'm a hunter and I have chickens I have to protect from predators. Killing is part of surviving. Even the most die hard vegan kills living creatures every day even if they don't know it. But lighting something on fire and watching it burn to death, that just makes me ill.

 

[deafdrummer]

Exactly, I'm a hunter and I have chickens I have to protect from predators. Killing is part of surviving. Even the most die hard vegan kills living creatures every day even if they don't know it. But lighting something on fire and watching it burn to death, that just makes me ill.

That's true... I wear leather boots because I can't find anything else that's as durable and tough as leather, which we have known how to work for thousands of years. Working with vegetable matter to make leather, like Ocean Leather or Cork Leather, is relatively new to us.

 

[MandyQueue]

Why would she light it on fire? Couldn't she just step on it or trap it in a box?

Only in 'Murica!

 

[rockin'robin]

Why would she light it on fire? Couldn't she just step on it or trap it in a box?

Only in 'Murica!

Well, I'm not about to step on a snake if I can help it...even the black snakes, King snakes or the green/garden snakes which are not deadly....it could have been a Rattler (in Texas)......she should have just got an axe or a shovel and killed it that way....And trapping a poisionous snake?...That would be for a professional is my guess....

Anyhow, maybe she should be thankful it wasn't a Python, as Florida has them in the Everglades....

 

[Reba]

Why would she light it on fire? Couldn't she just step on it or trap it in a box?

Only in 'Murica!

Step on it? Trap it in a box? Have you ever confronted a snake in your yard?

I've had water moccasins and rattlers in my back yard, front yard, front porch, azalea bushes, and kitchen. There is no way I would step on one, and they are almost impossible to catch into a container.

My Labrador caught and killed a couple (and took a bite from one) in our back yard. I killed a few with my garden hoe, and the sheriff shot one in my front yard. The ones on my porch and in my kitchen got away.

Hubby ran over one with a tractor mower once.

Even the non-venemous snakes can give a nasty bite.

I would never try to set one on fire.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Step on it? Trap it in a box? Have you ever confronted a snake in your yard?

I've had water moccasins and rattlers in my back yard, front yard, front porch, azalea bushes, and kitchen. There is no way I would step on one, and they are almost impossible to catch into a container.

My Labrador caught and killed a couple (and took a bite from one) in our back yard. I killed a few with my garden hoe, and the sheriff shot one in my front yard. The ones on my porch and in my kitchen got away.

Hubby ran over one with a tractor mower once.

Even the non-venemous snakes can give a nasty bite.

I would never try to set one on fire.

When I lived in California and was helping to clear out a field to grow food for low income people we found a huge rat nest and one of the rats came running at me, I had on heavy work boots and without thinking I stepped on the rat and killed it. My dad told me a story about a man getting bitten by a rat on his neck and I was not going to wait and see how far that rat was going to jump. This was the only time I killed an animal . I was glad I decided to go buy some men work boots and not some silly women boots

 

[Lau2046]

One woman’s extreme reaction to finding a snake in her yard backfired in tragic fashion. After being set on fire, the flaming snake caused the woman’s home to burn down.

KSLA News reports that the house fire started in Bowie County, Texas, when the snake’s burning body came into contact with a nearby pile of brush.

“While cleaning up, she saw a snake, threw gasoline on the snake, lit the snake on fire,” Bowie County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Randall Baggett told the station. “The snake went into the brush pile, and the brush pile caught the home on fire.”

Oddly enough, a local fire department official says the incident isn’t as unique as one might think.

"Yes, it could happen with rabbits and big field mice,” Liberty Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft told the station. “Once they start burning the grass, they get out of their hole. They have been known to catch fire and then take off."

Naturally, we prefer stories in which the nonhuman players are the heroes, not the victims. For instance, in December, one alert chicken reportedly saved the life of its owners when its clucking woke them up during a fire. Or, the hero rabbit that saved a family when their house went up in flames.

The resulting fire at the Texas home was so intense it completely destroyed the home and even burned part of the neighbor’s house. Even worse for the homeowner, local authorities reserve the right to file charges against her.

Woman

Sounds like she got what she deserved. I can understand her fear but that's no excuse for torturing an animal.

Laura

 

[shel90]

Weird