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  • kassi59
    Major General

    • Nov 2005
    • 2771

    grass snake ARE dangerous -

    Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes
    (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass
    snakes, not rattlesnakes.

    Here's why.

    A couple in Morro Bay, California, had a lot of potted
    plants. During a recent chilly 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 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 attendants 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 Emergency Medical! Technician 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 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 crawled 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 left her and moved to Alaska..

  • lovethatbluegrassmusic
    Major

    • Jul 2006
    • 495

    #2
    Re: grass snake ARE dangerous -

    Now I'm scarred to go home!
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    • Code-Burnt-Gemini
      Major

      • Jul 2006
      • 278

      #3
      Re: grass snake ARE dangerous -

      lol .... we play with green snakes here all the time. I know for a fact that wouldnt happen here because me wife thinks that everything that crawls, slithers, or hops is cute ... so she would run towards it, not away from it, unless ofcourse we know it to be poisonous ....

      LOL i laughed all the way through the story!
      brenT

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      • bill2006
        Lieutenant General

        • May 2006
        • 3421

        #4
        Re: grass snake ARE dangerous -

        Lol, for lack of a horseshoe.......
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        • FPRob
          Colonel

          • Aug 2006
          • 955

          #5
          Re: grass snake ARE dangerous -

          I once had to rescue a grass snake from two of our cats... It was putting up a real good fight (against the cats I mean). Although it seemed quite happy to see me in the end LOL

          I thought that common grass snakes and Garter snakes were two different speices?

          FPRULES


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