A Viennese had an extremely unusual encounter on Sunday afternoon in the middle of the Viennese district of Penzing: an Aesculapian snake suddenly wriggled out from under a car and headed straight for a residential building. The shocked 36-year-old alerted the fire brigade. Emergency services captured the animal.
The animal wriggled from the parked car to an apartment building on Jenullgasse. There it crawled straight up the stairs through the front gate. “The snake then hid near the front door again. When I approached him, he showed me his teeth,” Filip D. says about his experience on Sunday afternoon.
The shocked Viennese then alerted the fire brigade. “The emergency services had on protective suits and gloves so that they could quickly catch the animal,” said the 36-year-old. Christian Feiler, spokesperson for the professional fire brigade, explains: “Our so-called snake catch set was used. This consists of a long rod with gripping fingers. With this, the snake was gently grabbed and placed in a box.”
Snake abandoned in the forest
The emergency services took the more than one meter long Esculapian snake and released it in the forest on the border with Lower Austria.
The Esculapian snake is the only native species that can grow up to two meters in length. It is even one of the largest snake species in Europe. In Austria, the non-venomous animals populate all states – except Vorarlberg and Tyrol.
Source: Krone
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