A woman in Ohio had to be rescued after she called an emergency line to say she had a snake stuck to her face.

"Oh, please! I have a boa constrictor stuck to my face!" the woman was heard telling the operator.

"Ma'am, you have a what?" the operator replied. "You're outside with a boa constrictor stuck to your face?"

The woman said the 1.6m snake had wrapped itself around her and bitten her nose.

An ambulance was swiftly dispatched to the woman, who was found lying in her driveway with the snake around her neck.

"It was wrapped around her neck and biting her nose and wouldn't let go," fire chief Tim Card said, according to the local Chronicle-Telegram.

"They had to cut its head off with a knife to get it to let go of her face."

The 45-year-old reportedly has 11 snakes - all ball pythons, except the two boa constrictors she had rescued Wednesday.

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