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by ann3120 » Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:32 pm
Sorry this one's so long, but I just had to post it.
Never bring plants into the house
Garden Grass Snakes (also known as Garter Snakes) can
be dangerous... Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.
Here's why...
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted
plants. During a recent coldspell, the wife was
bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from
a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green
garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants
and, when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the
wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud
scream. The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out
into the living room, naked, to see what the problem
was.
She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got
down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for
it. About that time, the family dog came and
cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had
bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered
him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his
protests, loaded him on the stretcher and started
carrying him out.
About that time, the snake came out from under the
sofa. The Emergency Medical Technician saw it and
dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man
broke his leg, which meant he had to stay in the
hospital awhile.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the
house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered
to capture the snake. He armed himself with a
rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.
Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who
sat down on the sofa in relief. But while relaxing,
her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she
felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and
fainted and the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out,
tried to use CPR to revive her. The neighbor's wife,
who had just returned from shopping at the grocery
store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth
and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a
bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his
scalp so badly it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she
saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife
bending over him, so she assumed he had been
bitten by the snake. She went into the kitchen for a
small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the
man's throat.
By now the police had arrived. They saw the
unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that
a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to
arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how
it all happened over one little green snake. The
police called an ambulance, which took away the
neighbor and his sobbing wife.
The little snake again crawled out from under the
sofa. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at
it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end
table. The table fell over and the lamp on it
shattered. As the bulb broke it started a fire in the
drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and
fell through the window into the yard on top of the
family dog who, startled, jumped up and raced into the
street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and
smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the
neighbors, who called the fire department. To save
time, the firemen started raising the firetruck ladder
when they were halfway down the street. The rising
ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the
electricity and disconnected the telephones in a
ten-square city block area (but they did get the
housefire put out).
Time passed. Both men were discharged from the
hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home,
the police acquired a new car, and all was right with
their world.
Awhile later, they were once again watching TV when
the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night.
The husband asked his wife if she thought they should
bring in their plants?
That's when she shot him
Mrs. Annie Purple Hat