PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A Texas woman ended up burning down her home in a heated battle with a snake. When the Texarkana resident spotted the serpent in her garden, she doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze. The flaming snake slithered into a nearby brush pile, igniting it and the house in a conflagration that quickly spread, eventually damaging a neighboring home as well. “We were trying to kill a snake with fire,” the woman said in a frantic 911 call. “It done caught the house.”