The Snakes Are Stalking Us

Teen Wakes To Find Snake Wrapped Around Neck, Biting Her Arm

A teenage girl in Australia awoke when a snake slithered into her bed, wrapped itself around her neck and bit her on the arm.

Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after the attack, the Northern Territory News reported Tuesday.

The receptionist said she would be haunted by the incident. "Everyone was a bit freaked," she said.

Findlay woke up in her Howard Springs home early on Thursday morning when the snake bit her.

"I thought it was a huge spider or something. I hate spiders. But a few seconds later, I felt something moving past my neck,'' she said. "I turned on my light to see this huge slithering snake on my pillow.''

Findlay said she had been asleep since early in the evening and feared the snake could have been in her room the whole time."

After the emergency room, just take me to the loony bin, because I'd be nutty as a carrot cake.