Moment of shock in Steyr (Upper Austria)! The elderly couple Gertrude and Ferdinand O. suspected a viper in the pile of wood they had bought. Reptile expert Hans Esterbauer immediately came to his aid.
They were logs bought in Laussa that the couple Gertrude (75) and Ferdinand (80) O. had deposited in front of their house in Steyr. “While rearranging the firewood, a snake suddenly appeared that I thought was a viper,” said Ferdinand O.
The reptile lay curled up under one of the pieces of wood, where it startled. The animal clearly felt disturbed and quickly crawled back under the wood. O. called the Steyr hose expert Hans Esterbauer for advice. He asked him if he should catch the viper himself.
70 centimeter long hose
“I strongly advised the gentleman against doing this and asked him to keep a safe distance,” said Esterbauer. After getting there 30 minutes later, he carefully rearranged the logs. Esterbauer discovered the 70-centimeter snake, which turned out to be a non-venomous smooth snake: “I caught it and later released it into nature.”
Source: Krone
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