Little Green Snake
Posted by: root <root@...>
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 in the butt. 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. 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, 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 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 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. She shot him.
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