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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
northkeep-bounces@ansteorra.org [mailto:northkeep-bounces@ansteorra.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>charley olenak<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="10" Day="2" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Thursday, October 02, 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
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Hour="13" Minute="22"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> A & A Roberts; Diane
Karpinski; KELLY PITTS; LD.BLACKMOON; The Barony of Northkeep; Susan O'Neal;
Worf<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Northkeep] Re: Are YOU
Afraid of Snakes? ? ?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Are YOU Afraid of
Snakes? ? ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><u><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Garden Snakes are DANGEROUS!</span></font></u></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Green
garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just rattlesnakes.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
couple in </span></font><st1:place><st1:City><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sweetwater</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><st1:State><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Texas</span></font></st1:State></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
husband, who was taking a shower, ran out into the living room naked to see
what the problem was. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That's
when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An
ambulance was again called when it was determined that the injury required
hospitalization. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
ambulance arrived and took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Time
passed... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Both
men were discharged from the hospital. The house was rebuilt. The police
acquired a new car, and all was right with the world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>She
shot him. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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