Woman sets snake and apartment on fire - more dumbness

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- After being told by her apartment complex that it was not management's responsibility to remover a snake from her porch, a Jacksonville woman set the reptile -- and her apartment on fire.

Shatavia Kearney called the Charter Landing Apartments office Sunday afternoon and asked someone to remove a snake for her porch.

The 19-year-old told police she was told do deal with the situation herself. So Kearney doused the snake with a flammable liquid and set it on fire. In the process, the vinyl siding caught fire and was charred and melted in two places.

The total damage was about one-thousand dollars.

No one was charged and the snake got away.