Woman 'bites man after claiming she was a vampire'

A US woman who allegedly claims to be a vampire has bitten an elderly man.

Josephine Smith (aged 22) was charged with battery after biting wheelchair-bound Milton Ellis, 69, after he fell asleep when the pair went to find the porch of a restaurant to get out of the rain in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Milton told the authorities she said: "I'm a vampire. I am going to eat you."

According to St. Petersburg Police spokesman Mike Puetz, the woman was later found and arrested, but made no claims that she was a vampire.