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From: "Sam Hardesty" <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] ALWAYS THOUGHT GREEN SNAKES WERE OK
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:12:28 -0600
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I know this is suppose to be a joke but if you have lived in Sweetwater as I
have on a number of occasions you'd know that all of this is possible!
Sam Hardesty
Duncan, AZ.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:33 PM
Subject: [TXREDRIV-L] ALWAYS THOUGHT GREEN SNAKES WERE OK


> I thought everyone could use a little laugh and humor, after all the worry
> about the weather and the holidays.. I hope you enjoy this...
>
> ALWAYS THOUGHT GREEN SNAKES WERE OK? READ ON........
> 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 in 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 in the butt. He thought
the
> snake had bitten him, so 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
> 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 cushions, 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 sees 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 called and it was determined that he
> 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. They
called
> an ambulance, which 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 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
> rebuilt, 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
>
>
> Linda Mitchell Pool
> Horizon City Texas
>
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