Why garden snakes are deadly

[Jaylen Brit 0]

Shaggy dog story..or hot news item for failing cable channel? YOU decide

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 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.

[KarenCee 3]

SEE???? I tell you....snakes are BAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!

[Fuzzness 2]

are not!!

for all to see, this is KarenCee at Zoo Atlanta, Dec 23 2004.... in the reptile house.

Edited January 31, 2006 by Fuzzness

[KarenCee 3]

are too!

[MaryandMian 1]

An oldie but a goodie.

[KarenCee 3]

oh me oh my....i was skeered to death in that picture....this black mamba had its eyes on me and was slithering up the case....and i coulda sworn it was after me!

[Jasman0717 9]