Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Tampa octogenarian takes matters into her own hands, kills snake

An 87-year-old Tampa woman had had it with the motherloving snakes on her motherloving porch.

So when a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to Esther Orring's door and bit her on the hand, she got even, strangling the venomous little serpent with her bare hands.

"She's a tough lady," Orring's daughter, Maria Pellicone, told WFLA. "She's a very strong person, so she will be a survivor."

Orring has been hospitalized since the Monday incident, after she was administered several vials of antivenin.

But the well-gripped granny is expected to make a full recovery, and Pellicone says she'll have the dead snake framed for her.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Gr...s-52963742.html

Edited August 11, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[Peikko 1,575]

In the UK, because we don't allow our 'youf' to carry guns around they resort to other 'weapons' of choice. The latest craze is to attack fellow 'youfs' with exotic snakes, particularly snakes - although it seems they are just out to do a little scaring because they get non venomous snakes to bit. All a bit far out for me.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Go Granny, go!

[natty bumppo 297]

she had firm grip on the situation

wonder what the guys in her life had to say about her grip?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Get a grip, Natty.

[natty bumppo 297]

Get a grip, Natty.

she has the lethal kung fu grip ....

[Nagishkaw 510]

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting.....