GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE
DANGEROUS...
Having recently come upon a small snake while out walking, (see picture in previous post) this made me laugh so hard my sides hurt. A friend in Boston sent it and I am sorry but I don't know who to attribute the writing to. I hope you get as big a kick out of it as I did.
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
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 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.
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 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.
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
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 garden snake!
The police called an ambulance, 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.
16 comments:
What a fiasco! The domino effect at its best.
Well, this seems like small potatoes now, but when I worked in Cuba, Missouri, a high school boy was bitten on the upper inner thigh by a garden snake as he stretched out for PE class on the grass in the middle of the track.
An ambulance was called, and carted him to the hospital, where he was pronounced none the worse for his green serpent encounter.
To us, it was exciting. After your above tale, it seems like much ado about nothing. ;)
Is that a true story? Phew - that is a rough one.
This already made the rounds with me. I have to tell you though, the snake has added a couple of chapters since I last read this.
This is hysterical, Linda!
My fav part was the family dog coming up from behind.... (I'd better stop here!)
Can't you just visualize it?!
Now that's what I call a bad day.
Pat
Critter Alley
Oh my GOSH, Sandie. What happened to the snake? Susan
Sorry Linda....I said Sandie instead of Linda. Guess it's late. Susan
P.S. On Friday. Hi Linda. Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Love it when you visit. Have a good Friday! Susan
Susan had it right. You ARE Sandy Linda, because of you're a beach lover.
Very funny, Linda.
Great story...I may Google a phrase to see how the story changes from site to site.
I found an even longer story online...it doesn't end well.
Sounds like an episode of Lucy.
Oh my! I agree with Donna; sounds like Lucy!
At first I wondered if this is a true story. Then I realized it's fantastically funny either way!
This is a She said He said. Wow!
I thought it was never going to end Girly.
It was a good laugh.
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