Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous???

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 up 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.

Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous???
All that over a poor, harmless NONPOISONOUS snake. (shaking head in disbelief)



~OM~

SFCU



I remember a woman I worked with years back. She came to work one weekend so pleased with herself she was wagging from nose to tail !



The evening before she, and her Husband had been walking on their property by the Neuse River, and she saw a,"Humongous Snake" in the path. she sent her Husband all the way back to the house to get their shovel, while she stayed and watched where the snake might go. When he got backed, she said he,"Bashed that thing so hard another Snake came out of it's mouth !"



That stupid woman, and her stupider Husband killed a King Snake,(Rare in NC), that had just eaten a Cotton Mouth. That King Snake in it's life time, had it lived, would of killed more Poisonous Snakes than that retarded couple would ever of even seen !
Reply:Ha Ha Joy, loved the story!



The moral of the story is: " Always be aware of the snake in the grass" :)



((Joy))
Reply:Lmao. A great story well worth the read.
Reply:This is one of the cutest one going around .LOL
Reply:You SURELY have one active imagination, but I will giveyou this.

If I see any snake, any snake, no matter the type or the size, this scenario could truly be true. Its not even just fearing them, they are so slitery looking and gross, surely very dirty as they slither thru the grass and whatever is on it, and then slither into your home, and well , all I can say is double YUK.

anything creepy and crawly on the ground has always had this affect on me. Doesnt matter if they cant bite or are poison. Makes no difference to many just like me.

A snake is a snake is a snake is a snake.

I was on a walk once down by a river, getting close to dark and very shaded down there. I took a step and realized the long stick I just stepped over was not a stick, it was a snake. I shook for days, no wonder they represent evil in the Bible.

There is just something about them%26gt; Like I said, a snake is a snake. Try picking beans and seeing one of those little garter snakes right by your finger, all raped around the pole as you are picking beans. No, I wont have green beans in a garden ever again, too easy for those little things to hide.

I shake now simply thinking about it . Yuk.

WE have good friends that collect them, and love them like others love their dogs and cats. And they are really kool ppl, nice ppl, born again Christians, that just happen to love snakes.

Go figure huh? To each his own.

Thanks.

You made my day with your giggle story

WE all need a laugh, and it was just something we can picture in our minds, like the keystone cops or the three stooges. Oh Goodness, I have dated myself with that one. hahahahaha

Have a great day Joy.

Sister Shirley