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. ![]()
