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VK8PDG > HUMOUR 24.01.04 21:08l 5 Lines 4702 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 140_AARIG
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Subj: Life in Texas
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Sent: 040124/1226Z @:VK6ISP.PER.#WA.AUS.OC #:140 AARIG Web Portal http://www.aa
<P>Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, <BR>grass snakes, not just rattlesnakes A couple in<BR>Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and<BR>during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a<BR>lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible<BR>freeze. </P><P>It turned out that a little green garden grass snake<BR>was hidden in one of the plants and when it had <BR>warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go<BR>under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream. </P><P>The husband, who was taking a shower, ran out into <BR>the living room naked to see what the problem was. <BR>She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He <BR>got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look<BR>for it.</P><P>About that time the family dog came and cold nosed <BR>him on the rear. He thought the snake had bitten <BR>him and he fainted. His wife thought he had a heart<BR>attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants<BR>rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and started<BR>carrying him out. About that time the snake came out<BR>from under the sofa and one of the Emergency Medical<BR>Technicians saw it and dropped his end of the<BR>stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and<BR>why he is still in the hospital.</P><P>The wife still had the problem of the snake in their<BR>house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered<BR>to capture the snake. He armed himself with a<BR>rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.<BR>Soon <BR>he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat <BR>down on the sofa in relief. But in relaxing, her <BR>hand dangled in between the cushions where she felt<BR>the snake wriggling around.</P><P>She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under<BR>the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying<BR>there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her. The<BR>neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping <BR>at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the<BR>woman's mouth and slammed her husband on the back of<BR>the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out<BR>and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed<BR>stitches.</P><P>An ambulance was again called when it was determined<BR>that the injury required hospitalization. The noise<BR>woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her<BR>neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending <BR>over him, so she assumed he had been bitten by the<BR>snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small<BR>bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's<BR>throat. </P><P>By now the police had arrived. They saw the<BR>un-conscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed<BR>that <BR>a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to<BR>arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain<BR>how it all happened over a little green snake. </P><P>The ambulance arrived and took away the neighbor and<BR>his sobbing wife. Just then the little snake crawled<BR>out from under the couch. one of the policemen drew<BR>his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit<BR>the leg of the end table that was on one side of the<BR>sofa. Then the table fell over and the lamp on it<BR>shattered and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in<BR>the drapes. Another policeman tried to beat out the<BR>flames and fell through the window into the yard on <BR>top of the family dog. The startled dog jumped up and<BR>raced out into the street, where an oncoming car<BR>swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police<BR>car and set it on fire. Meanwhile, the burning drapes<BR>had spread to the walls and the entire house was<BR>blazing.</P><P>Neighbors had called the fire department and the <BR>arriving fire truck had started raising his ladder<BR>when they were halfway down the street. The rising<BR>ladder tore out the overhead wires and pulled out the<BR>electricity and disconnected telephones in a<BR>ten-square city block area.</P><P>Time passed... Both men were discharged from the<BR>hospital. The house was rebuilt. The police acquired<BR>a new car, and all was right with the world. </P><P>About a year later the original couple were watching<BR>TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that<BR>night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they<BR>should bring in their plants for the night.</P><P>She shot him!<BR><BR>73/s<BR>Peter VK8PDG</P><HR><B> Sent from the Australian Amateur Radio Interest Group's Portal. </B><BR>
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