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 cold snap, 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 warmed up, it slithered out and the
wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream.Â
Her 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 a 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 around
under the sofa.  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
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 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 into 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
brawl 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 to! ok! away
the neighbor and his! sobbing wife.
Just then the snake crawled out from under the sofa. One of
the policemen drew his revolver and fired at it. He missed
the snake and hit the leg of an 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 hitting the dog and smashed into the parked
police car, setting it on fire.  Meanwhile, the burning
drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was ablaze.
Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving fire
truck had started raising it's ladder as they were halfway down
the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires
and caused the electricity to go out, and also disconnected the
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 police car, and all
was right with the world once again.
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. She shot him. |
