Great-grandmother uses hammer to kill 6-foot snake in backyard

‘I got him good’: Florida great-grandmother, 89, uses hammer to kill a six-foot snake eating baby birds nesting in her back yard

  • A great grandmother bashed a snake to death with a hammer because it was eating baby birds nesting in her back garden
  • Garlene Eiceman noticed birds were missing from her feeders and was worried 
  • She saw a six-foot reptile and suspected it was the culprit for the missing birds
  • She killed the snake using a hammer, claiming: ‘I was so angry with it’ 

A great grandmother bashed a snake to death with a hammer because it was eating baby birds nesting in her back garden.

Garlene Eiceman, 89, began to notice birds were missing from one of the feeders in her garden and that no other birds came back.   

But three weeks ago, Eiceman watched in shock when she saw a snake emerge from a bird box.

Eiceman took an image of the six-foot snake that she killed in her back garden in Florida after it had been eating baby birds nesting there 

She had been watching a nest of three baby blue birds and their parents, she told the Tallahassee Democrat. 

But she noticed that the snake had some kind of bulge in its stomach, and suspected the reptile had been eating the birds and perhaps squirrels. 

Eiceman, who also goes by the name ‘Grandma Bunny’, told the outlet: ‘I started crying, I didn’t know what to do.

‘The snake went down and up a wooden flower box and it went out of sight. After that all the birds disappeared.’

She said that she eliminated all the places a bird could hide, including in the bird houses.   

Eiceman, who has six grandchildren and six great grandchildren , then grabbed a stick and hammer and was determined to stop the snake eating the wildlife on her property. 

‘He would go thin and wiggle out from under the twig, I would run after him and finally I turned my hammer sideways and I got him good. I was so angry with that snake.’

The birds and squirrels are beginning to return to her garden and Eiceman hopes she’s killed her last reptile.

‘I do not want to go through that any more. Watching those birds brought a lot of joy to me.’

 

 

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