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... ALWAYS THOUGHT GREEN SNAKES WERE OK? READ ON........
Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous, Yes, grass snakes, not
rattlesnakes.
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a
recent cold spell, 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 leg. He
thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he
had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed
in and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the
Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the
stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is in the
hospital.
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 in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the
cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and
fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man,
seeing her laying 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 to a point where it needed stitches. An
ambulance was again called and it was determined that the injury
required hospitalization.
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 to the kitchen, brought back 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 two women tried to explain how it all
happened over a little green snake. They called an ambulance, which
took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of
the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and
hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The
table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and 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 out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid
it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on fire.
Meanwhile the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire
house was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the
arriving fire-truck had started raising his ladder as 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.
Time passed ----------------- Both men were discharged from the
hospital, the house was re-built, the police acquired a new car, and
all was right with their world -------
About a year later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a
cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought
they should bring in their plants for the night. |
