Garden Snakes are DANGEROUS!
Green garden grass snakes can be
dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just 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 rear. 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 one of the Emergency Medical Technicians saw
it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
That's when the man
broke his leg and why he is still 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 cushion
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 on 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 when 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.
The ambulance arrived and 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.
Another policeman tried to beat out the flames and
fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog. The
startled dog 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 when they were halfway down the street. The
rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and pulled out the
electricity and disconnected telephones in a ten-square city block
area.
Time passed...
Both men were discharged from
the hospital. The house was rebuilt. The police acquired a new car,
and all was right with the world.
About a year later the
original couple 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.
She shot
him.