[BITList] GARDEN SNAKES--beware....

[michael J Feltham]

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> This seems like something that would happen in Queensland………
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> GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS
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> Green Tree Snakes  (Dendrolaphis punctulata) can be dangerous.
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> Yes, tree snakes or grass snakes, not brown snakes or taipans. Here's why:
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> A couple in Cairns, had a lot of potted plants.
> During a recent cold winter (for Cairns that is!),
> the wife was bringing some of the valued tender ones
> indoors to protect them from the cold night.
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> It turned out that a little green tree snake was hidden in one of the plants.
> When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the lounge.
> She let out a very loud scream.
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> 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 lounge.
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> 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.
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> His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up,
> told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
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> The paramedics rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him
> on their stretcher, and started carrying him out.
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> About that time, the snake came out from under the lounge and
> the paramedic saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
> That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in hospital.
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> The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house,
> so she called on a neighbour who volunteered to capture the snake.
> He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the lounge.
> Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the lounge in relief.
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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 lounge.
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> The neighbour, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
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> The neighbour's wife, who had just returned from shopping at Woolies,
> 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.
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> The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her
> neighbour 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 throat.
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> By now, the police had arrived.
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> 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 garden snake!
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> The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbour and his sobbing wife.
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> Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the lounge and 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, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke,
> it started a fire in the curtains.
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> 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.
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> Meanwhile, neighbours saw the burning curtains and called in the fire brigade.
> 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 power in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
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> Time passed! The snake was caught and 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.
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> A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night.
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> The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
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> And that's when he shot her.
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