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The power went out around 5pm last evening and I’m operating on too little sleep. But I’m confident that “A snake fell from the sky onto a woman in Silsbee, Texas, while she mowed her lawn — then a hawk attacked them both” is the most evocative headline I’ll encounter today. (Were I the editor, I’d have omitted the locale.)
Yikes.
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(Were I the editor, I’d have omitted the locale.)
I would as well. It almost makes me not want to click on it, because it becomes just another item on a long list of reasons not to live in a Texas small town.
I also think: Brett Favre mows his lawn more than just about anyone else on the planet. Why couldn’t this have happened to him?
@JohnSF:
It’s an eagle on the flag.
I suppose the hawk caught the snake elsewhere, then dropped it en route to wherever it was going. Naturally it tried to retrieve its lunch.
@JohnSF: The Gadsden flag comes to mind for me.
“Don’t fall on me”
Add a small eagle in the corner, I suppose.
@gVOR10:
This has to be a Florida story.
Why?
– The woman was fully clothed
– She was performing a normal everyday activity
– She was sober
– She wasn’t manufacturing meth at the time
I mean, how could she have been in Florida?
@Kathy: I thought I heard that the reason the eagle and snake are on the flag was that one of the conquistadors saw just that, way back when. But I don’t have a source for that memory.
The traditional explanation is that the Mexica people saw the eagle dining on a snake on top of a cactus on an island in what would become Tenochtitlan, which would become the capital of the Aztec empire, and then Mexico City.
@MarkedMan:
In all honesty Florida is the only place I have ever seen an eagle flying through the air holding a snake. I was quite glad to be in a car in case the damn thing fell.
