[GeoStL] Re: cold weather
- From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:20:17 -0600
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That was great!!
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From: "Glenn" <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] cold weather
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> A older geocaching couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted
> plants,and 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 the floor
> on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came
> and cold nosed him on the rear. He thought the snake had bitten him and he
> fainted. His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she called an
> ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and
> started carrying him out.
>
> About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and one of the
> Emergency Medical Technicians 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 in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushion where she felt
> the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed
back
> under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying 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
> on 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. An ambulance was
> again called when it was determined that the injury required
hospitalization.
>
> 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 he had
> been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back 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 two women tried to explain how it all happened
> over a little green snake.
>
> The ambulance arrived and took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
> Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the
> policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the
leg
> of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. 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 out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it
> and smashed into the parked police car and set it on fire.
>
> Meanwhile, the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire
> house was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the
> arriving fire truck had started raising his ladder when they were halfway
> down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and pulled
> out the electricity and disconnected telephones in a ten-square city block
> area.
>
> Time passed...
>
> Both men were discharged from the hospital. The house was re-built. The
> police acquired a new car, and all was right with the world.
>
> This year the original couple were watching TV and the weatherman
> announced a cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she
> thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
>
> She shot him...
> .:~*~:.:~*~:.:~*~:.:~*~:.
> Glenn
> St. Louis, Mo
>
>
>
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