Today has been a good day for news about hellish things. Earlier today, I reported that Italian archaeologists had recently discovered an ancient portal to hell amid the ruins of Hierapolis, in Turkey. Now news emerges that a snake on fire just burned down a woman’s home in Texas.It’s a lesson in what not to do when you see the proverbial snake in the grass. According to a report by local news channel KSLA, a woman living in Liberty Eylau, Tex., near the Arkansas border, was doing some yard work when she encountered a snake. Instead of whacking it with a whacking stick, she doused in gasoline and lit it on fire.But, like Samson in the Philistine temple, that snake wasn’t going out like that—not without taking the whole house down with it. The flaming snake slithered over to a brush pile, which ignited in kind. The flaming brush pile then caught the woman’s house on fire.Firefighters were too late to stop the whole house from burning down. The fire also burned part of a neighbor’s house.Per KSLA :Liberty Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft says they are still investigating the fire, but that it's not unusual for a burning animal to spread a fire.“Yes, it could happen with rabbits and big field mice. Once they start burning the grass, they get out of their hole, they have been known to catch fire and then take off.”Still, the chief says, a fire started by a burning snake is a first for him.There’s a valuable lesson here somewhere. Torch one of Satan’s little helpers, he’s gonna bring the hellfire.
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