dalin
10-30-2007, 03:00 PM
Subject: Garden Grass Snakes
> Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis)
>
> >> can be dangerous.
> >> Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.
> >>
> >> A couple in Sweetwater , Texas , had a lot of potted plants. 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. When it had warmed up, it s lithered 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.
> >> A bout 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 had a heart attack, so she covered him up,
> >> told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
> >>
> >> The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests , loaded
> >> him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
> >>
> >> A bout 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 who 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.
> >>
> >& gt; 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
> the
> >> snake
> >> had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of
> >> whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's th roat.
> >>
> >> By now, the police had arrived. Breath here......
> >>
> >> They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that
> >> a drunken fight had occurred. T hey 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 amb ulance, which took away the neighbor and his
>
> >> sobbing wife.
> >>
> >> Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and 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, 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, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire
> >> department. The firemen had s tarted raising the fire ladder when
> >> they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the
> >> overhead wires, put out the power, 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 worl d.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> A nd that's when he shot her.
:cool:
> Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis)
>
> >> can be dangerous.
> >> Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.
> >>
> >> A couple in Sweetwater , Texas , had a lot of potted plants. 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. When it had warmed up, it s lithered 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.
> >> A bout 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 had a heart attack, so she covered him up,
> >> told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
> >>
> >> The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests , loaded
> >> him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
> >>
> >> A bout 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 who 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.
> >>
> >& gt; 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
> the
> >> snake
> >> had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of
> >> whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's th roat.
> >>
> >> By now, the police had arrived. Breath here......
> >>
> >> They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that
> >> a drunken fight had occurred. T hey 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 amb ulance, which took away the neighbor and his
>
> >> sobbing wife.
> >>
> >> Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and 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, 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, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire
> >> department. The firemen had s tarted raising the fire ladder when
> >> they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the
> >> overhead wires, put out the power, 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 worl d.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> A nd that's when he shot her.
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