Woman Bitten By Copperhead While Doing Laundry

MOUNT PENN, Pa. (AP) – Officials say a Pennsylvania woman was bitten on the arm by a venomous snake when she went to her basement to do laundry.
The Reading Eagle reports that the Mount Penn woman called 911 Tuesday morning to report that she’d been bitten by a rattlesnake. Authorities say it was actually a 2-foot-long (0.61-meter) copperhead. They found it on a shelf near the washing machine.
Police called the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, which bagged the snake and moved i