A mother-of-four said she thought she was going to die after a large snake crawled into her bed while she slept and bit her on the breast.
Caroline Griffin, 49, had no idea if the four foot snake was poisonous after it found its way beneath her duvet and sank its fangs into her chest while she slept at her home in Guardbridge, Fife.
Thankfully the creature was a harmless brown belly California kingsnake which had escaped from a neighbour's home six months earlier.
Describing the incident, Ms Griffin told the Daily Record: 'I was about to get up to get the kids ready to go to school when I threw the duvet back and saw it sitting on my chest.'
'I thought the kids were playing some sort of trick on me at first. Then I saw it move and I got the fright of my life.
'As soon as I started to scream, it bit me on the breast. It was quite sore... I thought I was going to die.'
As she suffered no immediate sickness as a result of the bite, Ms Griffin asked her children Laura, 24, Michael, 21, Emily 16 and DJ, 13, to take photographs of the snake and call the Scottish SPCA for assistance. She also told her neighbours what had happened.
News spread along the street and a short time later the snake's owner Gareth Niven, 21, arrived at her front door to collect it.
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