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

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. 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 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 re-built. 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.
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