ISF on vacation and the unwanted guest. A snake in the car for 17 days

The illegal stay of a snake lasted 17 days (in the picture) inside the car, an Opel Grandland”, which he had sneaked into on August 3 last year. Day in which, as we reported on the occasion [READ THE FIRST ARTICLE], after having traveled by car from Trebisacce to Villapiana-Lido and vice versa, on the return journey he decided to take a walk on his bare feet (he wore sanili) of the driver of the ALR car, 43 years old, professional medical-scientific informant, residing in Rome but on vacation in Trebisacce who at that moment was driving the car in the company of his wife and 8-year-old son, obviously sowing panic and forcing the unsuspecting driver to make a sharp and dangerous stop.

As we reported in the news, the Trebisacce Fire Brigade immediately arrived on the spot and ransacked the car from top to bottom. without being able to identify the hiding place where the reptile had taken refuge.

And there, inside the car, later parked on the Lungomare di Trebisacce, the reptile, about one meter long, gray in color and with brown streaks, he remained for 17 days undergoing a hunger strike and making fleeting appearances, as in the case in which he was photographed while he was twisted in the steering wheel. Meanwhile the car owner, who has never stopped inspecting the car to verify the presence of the unwanted guest, was equipped with a supplementary car with which he was able to resume work.

Only last August 20, perhaps due to a physiological food crisis and after various attempts by the car owner to sow traps and stickers of various kinds in the car's passenger compartment to capture it alive, the snake, certainly more frightened than the bystanders, decided to get out of the car and to gain freedom.

And he did it among a swarm of people who, gathered around the car, were divided over the fate to be assigned to the poor snake between those who wanted him killed and those who instead invoked his salvation. In the end, fortunately, common sense and due diligence prevailed mercy towards a "harmless" animal species, identified thanks to the photos taken in the meantime by the car owner as a harmless "colubrid", which has nothing to do with the viper which, as is known, has sharp teeth and poisonous.

A story with a happy ending, therefore, which in any case must make us reflect and push for due attention, because when the heat becomes unbearable as is happening these days, even the reptiles lose their bearings and, in search of some refreshment, risk ending up inside cars and even inside civilian homes.

source Paese 24 – 21 agosto 2020