Just A Little Snake...

Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous.
Yes, grass snakes, not rattle-snakes.

A couple in Sweet-water, 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 leg.
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 neighbour 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 cushions, where she
felt the snake wriggling around.
She screamed and fainted!
The snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbour man, seeing
her laying there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbour's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store.
She 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 hospitalisation.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbour
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 neighbour 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.

Neighbours 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.