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.