A hawk dropped a snake on me as I cut my grass before BOTH beasts attacked me – I thought I was going to die
A HAWK dropped its snake prey on a woman mowing her lawn – and she endured a bizarre billion-to-one ordeal as both creatures attacked her.
Peggy Jones, 64, was in her garden in Silsbee, Texas, when the four-and-a-half foot snake suddenly fell onto her arm and began striking at her arm and face.
The hawk – which had dropped the serpent onto her after grabbing it – swooped down to retrieve it and sank its talons deep into Peggy’s flesh as she battled the pair of predators.
Peggy told last night how she feared she could die but escaped with puncture wounds and cuts and bruising to her arm and face.
She said: “As I was trying to sling my arm and sling the snake off, the snake wrapped around my arm.
“I was violently shaking my arm to try and get the snake off. He just wrapped and squeezed tighter and tighter.
“The snake was striking in my face, it struck my glasses a couple of times.
“Then the hawk appeared just as fast as the snake had.
“It grabbed the snake and pulled it like he was going to carry it away and when he did, it flung my arm up.
“The hawk was carrying my arm and the snake with it.
“I’m screaming during this whole time, ‘Help me, Jesus! Please, help me, Jesus!’”
Peggy said the hawk retreated and returned to its prey four times, slapping her in the face with its wings before managing to prise its prey free and fly off.
Her husband Wendell dashed to her aid on his sit-and-ride mower and found her fleeing in a zigzag pattern clutching her bloodied arm as the struggling serpent was taken.
Peggy – whose glasses were broken by the snake – was found not to have been bitten by the creature by hospital medics who bandaged her arm and prescribed antibiotics.
She added: “I feel it was by the grace of God I am still alive and able to tell my story.”
This comes after a man was bitten on his head by Britain’s only deadly species of snake after it slithered into his tent on a camping holiday.
Tony Mohammed believed the venomous adder sunk its fangs into his scalp as he slept.