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Subject: Do Not Bring Plants Into the House
>>
>>
>> DURING COLD WEATHER!!!
>> 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 Baltimore, Maryland had a lot of potted plants. During a
>> recent
>> cold spell, the wife was bringing some 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 attendant 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 EMT 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. 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 came 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 shot her.
>>
>>
>>
>>
Subject: Do Not Bring Plants Into the House
>>
>>
>> DURING COLD WEATHER!!!
>> 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 Baltimore, Maryland had a lot of potted plants. During a
>> recent
>> cold spell, the wife was bringing some 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 attendant 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 EMT 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. 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 came 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 shot her.
>>
>>
>>
>>