Snake Trapped by China Egg -- Marijuana as Gateway Drug (1970) -- Watermelon Seeds Grow in Stomach

There are many tales of snakes that, after entering a hen-house through a small opening and swallowing a china egg by mistake, are unable to exit because of the bulge in their stomach. The following item tells how two such eggs were supposedly used to trap snakes.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/holidays-an-unexpected-occupational-hazard-20220107-p59mjx.html

Sydney Morning Herald, 9 January 2022

Column 8

Holidays an unexpected occupational hazard

[…] “During the holidays my mother, 98 and going strong, reminded us of her father’s way of protecting their hens from snakes,” writes Brendan Lawler of Sherwood. “China eggs, too big to fit through the chicken wire, would be placed just on either side of the wire. The snake would swallow one then the other and, unable to move further, would be awaiting dispatch in the morning.” […]

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=THD19191219-01.2.44&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------

“China Egg Traps Snake,” The Herald Democrat [Leadville, CO], 19 December 1919, p. 6.

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Teen-Age Booby Trap (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970). Excerpt from a 32-page comic book asserts that “it is rare indeed to find a user of hard narcotics who did not start out on marijuana.”

https://archive.org/details/Hooked_201607/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater

 

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Bad Tales (written & directed by Damiano D’Innocenzo and Fabio D’Innocenzo, 2020). Original Italian title: Favolacce. Woman in headband: “There’s watermelon too. Don’t eat the seeds, they’ll grow in your belly.”

Deaths Come in Threes – Snake in Christmas Wreath – Spit in Cop’s Drink (Wisconsin)

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Beyond%20Reality%20magazine/

Ben Townsend, “When Brushes with Death Came in Three,” Beyond Reality (New York), no. 35, Jan./Feb. 1979, pp. 28-31, 52.  “Experienced newsmen know that notable events – especially deaths and calamities – come in threes.”

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 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10548084/christmas-wreath-has-snake-inside/

The Sun [UK]

13 December 2019

GOOD WREATH! Man notices Co-op Christmas wreath has a funny smell – and finds SNAKE inside

A BAFFLED dad noticed some scaly bulges in his Christmas wreath and was horrified to discover it contained a dead snake. Karl Gaskell, 43, and his wife Nicki, 40, bought the natural decoration - made from branches and tightly bound straw - from a supermarket to hang on their front door. […] “I panicked because I thought - 'what if it was from China?' I suddenly thought if it had come from Asia somehow, poisonous snakes remain poisonous long after they've died.” […] [Gaskell sent a photo to the Natural History Museum, which informed him that the specimen was a harmless British grass snake.]

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https://www.cbs58.com/news/menomonee-falls-police-detective-sues-dunkin-donuts-after-employee-spit-in-coffee

WDJT-TV [Milwaukee, WI]

11 December 2019

Menomonee Falls police detective sues Dunkin' Donuts after employee spit in coffee

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A Menomonee Falls police detective is suing Dunkin' Donuts because an employee spit in his drink. The employee, Brian Colon, admits he did in fact spit in Andrew Martin's coffee in December 2017. […]