Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Wouldn't want any out-of-state guys to see this. 
Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not
rattlesnakes.
A couple in Rockwall, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and 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'd 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 at Garland. 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 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 would need 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 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 its 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 of south
Rockwall along Texas State Route 205.
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.
Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not
rattlesnakes.
A couple in Rockwall, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and 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'd 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 at Garland. 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 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 would need 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 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 its 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 of south
Rockwall along Texas State Route 205.
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.
