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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 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 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. 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 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.