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Never bring plants into the house
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Never bring plants into the house
Garden Grass Snakes (also known as Garter Snakes... Thamnophis sirtalis) 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 hiding in one of the plants, and when it had warmed up, it slithered out of its hiding place. As 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 in the room 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, ignored his protests, loaded him on the stretcher and started to carry him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa. When the Emergency Medical Technician saw it, he dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and that's 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, and 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 bent over him, so she assumed 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 another ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
At this point, 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 which was sitting on it shattered. And as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, but he fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog. Startled, the dog yelped 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 which disconnected the power and telephone service 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, the man and woman 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.
That's when she shot him.
[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Garden Grass Snakes (also known as Garter Snakes... Thamnophis sirtalis) 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 hiding in one of the plants, and when it had warmed up, it slithered out of its hiding place. As 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 in the room 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, ignored his protests, loaded him on the stretcher and started to carry him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa. When the Emergency Medical Technician saw it, he dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and that's 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, and 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 bent over him, so she assumed 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 another ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
At this point, 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 which was sitting on it shattered. And as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, but he fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog. Startled, the dog yelped 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 which disconnected the power and telephone service 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, the man and woman 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.
That's when she shot him.
[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Comments
...if true [:0],...thats what was freakin them all...
...Sweetwater, the whole area, Midland, Abilene...sand...cactus...oil pumps...rattlers...[;)]