Man bitten by snake in his driveway

NEW TAMPA - A simple walk down his driveway sent Randy Scragg to the emergency room.

"Right in the center of my driveway, it wasn't like I was in the woods or walking in the grass right in the center of my driveway didn't even see it," he said.

Scragg felt a sharp sting on his right ankle and ran back inside his house to grab a flashlight and get a closer look.

"I thought, was it a scorpion or something? Because I know there out there," he said. "It didn't even occur to me that it was a snake."

The father of two was bitten by a Pygmy Rattle Snake Friday. Scragg killed the rattler and then headed to Tampa General Hospital for anti-venin treatment.

"The whole experience is pretty wild I never thought this would happen to me," Scragg said.

But the slithering encounters didn't end in New Tampa. Robert Moore was cleaning out a foreclosed home in New Port Richey when something caught his eye.

"We seen a box in the front porch and in this box there was something moving we weren't quite sure what it was," Moore said.

The surprise in the box was a Colombian Red Tail Boa Constrictor. It had been left in a box by the previous owner.

Even Moore's neighbor Mike Browning couldn't believe the eight-foot surprise.

"It's kinda freaky to see something like that. You never know what's living next door, as they say," Browning said.

Then Moore had to figure out what to do with it. So he contacted a snake expert who rescued the reptile.