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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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Charley</B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>To: you all</STRONG>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Are YOU Afraid of Snakes? ?
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<P><U><STRONG><FONT size=5>Garden Snakes are DANGEROUS!</FONT></STRONG></U>
<P>Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just
rattlesnakes.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>The husband, who was taking a shower, ran out into the living room naked to
see what the problem was.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>An ambulance was again called when it was determined that the injury
required hospitalization.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>The ambulance arrived and took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>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.
<P>Time passed...
<P>Both men were discharged from the hospital. The house was rebuilt. The
police acquired a new car, and all was right with the world.
<P>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.
<P>She shot him. </P></FONT></DIV>
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