> Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes can be dangerous.
>
> Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.........
>
> A couple in Baltimore , Maryland had a lot of potted plants.
>
> During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing some 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 behind.
>
> He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
>
> His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
>
> The attendant rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
>
> About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the EMT saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
>
> The man broke his leg and is still in the hospital.
>
> The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor.
>
>
>
> 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 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 he had been bitten by the snake.
>
> 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 green snake.
>
> The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
>
>
> The little snake again came out from under the sofa.
>
> 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 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 out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
>
> Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department.
>
> The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when 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 (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.
>
> That's when he shot her.
>
> Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.........
>
> A couple in Baltimore , Maryland had a lot of potted plants.
>
> During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing some 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 behind.
>
> He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
>
> His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
>
> The attendant rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
>
> About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the EMT saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
>
> The man broke his leg and is still in the hospital.
>
> The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor.
>
>
>
> 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 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 he had been bitten by the snake.
>
> 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 green snake.
>
> The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
>
>
> The little snake again came out from under the sofa.
>
> 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 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 out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
>
> Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department.
>
> The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when 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 (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.
>
> That's when he shot her.
