Texas Woman Poisoned By Napkin Wedged In Car Door In Alleged Kidnapping Attempt

A Texas woman found herself in a hospital after she touched a napkin wedged in her car door that was allegedly laced with poison.

Erin Mims, a hair salon owner, was out celebrating her birthday with her husband on Aug. 16 at a Houston restaurant when she found a napkin on the door of their car, NY Post reported.

"After we finished eating and walked to the car, there was a napkin sticking out of the door handle," she said in a video posted on her Facebook account, sharing chilling details of the incident.

Mims added that she didn't think much of the napkin and threw it out.

"I opened the door with the tips of my fingers. I asked my husband, did you put a napkin in the door? And he said no," Mims said.

She then went back inside the restaurant to wash her hands. However, moments after leaving the restaurant, Mims started feeling an intense sting in her hand and arm, Yahoo News said.

"My whole arm started tingling and feeling numb," she said. "I got lightheaded, I felt like I couldn't breathe, I got hot, it was just a whole bunch of different feelings at once."

Her husband immediately took the woman to a nearby hospital, where a doctor diagnosed her vitals and conducted multiple tests. As Mims shared what had happened, the doctor indicated an attempted kidnapping.

"They said my vitals were all over the place. The doctor came in, and told me it wasn't enough in my system to determine what it was, but said it was acute poisoning from an unknown substance," Mims claimed in the video. "But just that little amount had me messed up ya'll, so just imagine if I would've grabbed it with my whole hand, I could've been dead."

Mims filed a police report in the matter. According to the Houston Police Department, this is the first case of the kind they had witnessed.

A sheriff's office in Louisiana posted about the incident Monday to warn the public to be on the lookout for such instances.

"We share this with you so that you are simply aware," the sheriff's office wrote in a Facebook post. "If you are out and about and experience anything on your vehicle that had not been there before, do not remove it with your bare hand. Use caution."

Meanwhile, Mims' video has gone viral, garnering more than a million views. Many social media users are appreciating her efforts to come forward and raise awareness of the incident.