Once upon a time there were two men wandering around in Death Valley. During their wanderings, they came across a lever in the sand with a sign attached to it. The sign read PULL LEVER TO END THE WORLD. This frightened the two men to a point which they thought that they should do something to keep any person from pulling the lever on purpose or by accident. The first thing they tried to do was destroy the lever, but to their dismay the lever was indestructible. They next tried to bury the lever but found that any sand piled on top of the lever was magically swept away within seconds. After a few days worth of thinking, one of the men, call him Joe for want of a better name, came up with what he thought was a brilliant plan. After discussing his idea with Bill (the other man in this story), they ran all the way into the nearest town and bought themselves a 30 foot Python and named him Nate. Joe and Bill then took Nate out to where the lever was and spent the next two weeks training Nate to hiss at anybody who got within ten feet of the lever. Nate got very good at protecting the lever and Joe and Bill were satisfied that the lever would never be pulled. After Joe and Bill returned to the town, they soon began bragging about what they has accomplished. This brought their work to the attention of the Humane Society. A few days after their return, a representative of the Humane Society informed them that they could not leave Nate unprotected in the desert without risking legal action against themselves. Bill and Joe then went to the local pet store and bought Nate a Python house and dragged it the 47 miles out to where the lever stood and built it for Nate.The house went up easily, but Joe and Bill had to retrain Nate to stay in his house and whenever someone got too close to the lever, to leave his house and to hiss the person away. Joe and Bill were again rather proud of what they did and made their way back to town. Just as they entered the city limits, the representative of the Humane Society met them there. "I'm sorry," said the rep, "but the law states that you need a source of water for your snake out in the desert". The rep suggested that they install a swimming pool for Nate and they agreed. Joe and Bill then went to the town's swimming pool center and bought the supplies for a nice Olympic sized pool for Nate. They dragged the supplies the 47 miles out to Nate and installed the pool. Now Bill and Joe had to re-retrain Nate. They had to teach him how to swim, to leave the pool when someone got too close to the lever, and not to hiss at the man who came once a week to fill his pool. This took another month because Nate wasn't a very good swimmer. Joe and Bill were exhausted after this and made their way to town taking their time. When they finally did get back, the mayor of the town met them at the city limits with some bad news. "I just found out" explained the mayor, "the state plans on building a highway that goes right between Nate's house and the lever. So now Joe and Bill had to rereretrain Nate. Now whenever someone got too close to the lever, Nate had to leave his house, look both ways across the street and then hiss at the person until they went away. This took another month, but the highway was finally built and everything went rather well, expect for the occasional hissing at by Nate at some highway worker who strayed too close to the lever.Things went very well for the next ten years. One day, the man who filled Nate's pool was on his way to do just that. There was an accident in the road just before Nate's house. The driver had to swerve in order to avoid the accident and ran right over Nate's house killing Nate. When asked later why the driver chose to run over Nate's house rather than hitting the lever, the driver replied "It was better Nate than Lever".