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A couple in Sweetwater, Tx. 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 cushions 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.

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 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.

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 ! !