Green Garden Snakes
ALWAYS THOUGHT GREEN SNAKES WERE OK? READ ........" 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. 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 and > SHE SHOT HIM! Delma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
