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Note: This funny little story was submitted to the Wildlife Pro Network by Tim Love, of Knoxville, Iowa
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GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS ??
Garden Snakes also known as 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 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.. (Take a deep breath here……)
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, an
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 an ambulance, which took the neighbor and his
sobbing wife to the Emergency Room.
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..
Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called
in the fire department.
The firemen had started raising the fire ladder
when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder
tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the
telephones 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 they were watching TV and the weatherman
announced a cold snap for that night. The wife
asked her husband if he thought they should bring in
their plants for the night.
And thats when he shot her.
Posted on 5th June 2009
Under: Nature, Pest control, Snake Control, The Wildlife Pro Network, gardening, wildlife control | No Comments »
