Never bring outdoor plants into the house!

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

Here's why.

A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants. wonder who ?
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 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 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,
loaded
him on a stretcher and started carrying him out.

About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa. 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 with relief.

But while relaxing, her hand dangled between the cushions where
she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted.
The snake went back under the sofa.

The neighbor man, seeing her lying there, 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 him in the head with a bag of canned goods,
knocking him out and cutting his scalp to the point where it
needed stitches.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint, and when she
saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over
him, she assumed 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 woman tried to explain how it had
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, but fell
through
the window on top of the family dog, who, startled, jumped up
and ran out 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 ladder truck when they
were halfway down the block.

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 an 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 the plants for the
night.

That's when he shot her!