Dangerous
Snake
sent
by Dulce of Vancover, B.C.

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. 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.
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 had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told
him to lie still and called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, 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 who 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
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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.
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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
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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 the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen
and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's
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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.
Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and
one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the
snake and hit the leg of the end table.
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The table fell over, 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,
neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department.
The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway
down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out
the power, 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.
And that's when he shot her!
A
powerful message from Stevie Wonder regarding Michael Jackson
sent
by Mike of New York
A powerful message from Stevie Wonder regarding Michael Jackson.

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Videos
of the week:
Worst Movies Ever
sent
by Janet of South Pasadena, CA
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It's
amazing that these movies even made it to the theaters. I mean ...
these are really bad --- bad acting, bad directing, simply
baaaad all the way.
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Newspaper Headlines
sent
by Marilyn
of Pasadena, CA
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Just
put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the newspaper
headlines pop up... Double click and the page gets larger.... you
can read the entire paper on some if you click on the right place.
You can spend forever here. Also, if you look at the European papers,
the far left side of Germany will pop up as The Stars & Stripes
(European edition, of course). AND, this site changes everyday with
the publication of new editions of the paper. Hope you enjoy this.
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Male and Female
Brains
sent
by Fran of Florida
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Finally,
the difference between the male and female brain explained in practical
terms. It's a bit long so be prepared for the ride.
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Soldier's Return
sent
by Mike of New York
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Arguably
the best Ford commercial ever. Guranteed to tug your heartstrings
and well up those tear ducts.
I'm
sure this will remind you of some people.
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Give us a sense
of humor, Lord. Give us the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life. And pass it on to other folk
submitted
by Sylvia of Virginia
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