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. ![]()
