Post by madratdan on May 22, 2006 7:56:12 GMT -5
Never Bring Snakes in the house
Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes
(Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass
snakes, not rattlesnakes.
Here's why.
A couple in Morro Bay, California, had a lot of potted
plants. During a recent chilly 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 behind. He thought the snake had
bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered
him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his
protests 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 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 while 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.
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
him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it
needed stitches.
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 that he had been
bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got 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 women tried to explain
how it all happened over a little green snake.
The police called an ambulance, which took away the
neighbor and his sobbing wife.
The little snake again crawled out from under the
sofa.
One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it.
He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table.
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 out and raced into
the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it
and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes, were seen by the
neighbors who called the fire department.
The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder
when 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 (but they did get the
house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the
hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home,
the police acquired a new car, and all was right with
their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman
announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked
her husband if he thought they should bring in their
plants! for the night.
That's when he shot her.
Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes
(Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass
snakes, not rattlesnakes.
Here's why.
A couple in Morro Bay, California, had a lot of potted
plants. During a recent chilly 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 behind. He thought the snake had
bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered
him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his
protests 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 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 while 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.
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
him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it
needed stitches.
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 that he had been
bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got 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 women tried to explain
how it all happened over a little green snake.
The police called an ambulance, which took away the
neighbor and his sobbing wife.
The little snake again crawled out from under the
sofa.
One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it.
He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table.
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 out and raced into
the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it
and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes, were seen by the
neighbors who called the fire department.
The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder
when 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 (but they did get the
house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the
hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home,
the police acquired a new car, and all was right with
their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman
announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked
her husband if he thought they should bring in their
plants! for the night.
That's when he shot her.