Lol, I love the "carnivorous snakes" part.
That neighbor is nosy and needs to spend less time spying on her neighbors and more time in counseling or visiting local herp societies, trying to figure out why she has such an irrational phobia.
I don't honestly believe she stayed up all night waiting for the snakes. She was willing to come outside to talk to news crews while they were taking the snakes out, wasn't she?
Absolutely moronic...