[Elfsea] FW: [Northkeep] Re: Are YOU Afraid of Snakes? ? ?

[Betsy Marshall]

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[mailto:northkeep-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of charley olenak
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:22 PM
To: A & A Roberts; Diane Karpinski; KELLY PITTS; LD.BLACKMOON; The
Barony of Northkeep; Susan O'Neal; Worf
Subject: [Northkeep] Re: Are YOU Afraid of Snakes? ? ?
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From:  Charley
To:    you all 
Subject: Are YOU Afraid of Snakes? ? ?
 
Garden Snakes are DANGEROUS! 
Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just
rattlesnakes. 
A couple in Sweetwater, 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 rear. 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 one of the Emergency Medical Technicians 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 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 cushion 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 at the grocery
store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her
husband on 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 when it was determined that the injury
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. 
The ambulance arrived and 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. 
Another policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the
window into the yard on top of the family dog. The startled dog 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 when they were
halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires
and pulled out the electricity and disconnected 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 the world. 
About a year later the original couple 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. 
 
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