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[h=1]Dead snake found on Christchurch street[/h] [h=2][/h] NICOLE MATHEWSON Last updated 05:00 09/01/2012
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LONG WAY FROM HOME: The snake found on a suburban Christchurch street.
A Christchurch man was shocked to discover the well-preserved body of a brown snake on a suburban street.
Somerfield resident Kris Kaan was walking with a friend along Cashmere's Ashgrove Tce on Thursday evening when they came across the unusual find.
"Me and my mate were just walking along. We saw a lady standing on the side of the road looking down at the ground."
Kaan's friend saw the snake first, and he heard him ask the woman "is that real".
"Then I looked down and just thought it was some rubber snake.
"I kept saying `is this real, is this a joke'."
The snake was at least a metre long and was tan-brown in colour, with a yellowish belly, he said.
"My mate picked it up and I touched it. It was definitely a snake."
They saw "small fangs" and "bits of goo" on the snake.
"It was quite fat, but the head was quite small."
It appeared to have been run over, Kaan said.
"Its body was still quite pliable. We looked closer and could see the scales and see where the tyre had gone over."
Kaan said he had never seen a snake in real life before, and finding one in Christchurch was "weird".
"It was just bizarre. I honestly didn't believe it was a real snake; it took me a while until I touched it."
A Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry spokeswoman said MAF was aware of the find, but the snake was not a biosecurity risk as it had been preserved in fluid.
It was not alive or recently dead, she said.
- © Fairfax NZ News
this was found on a nz news site called stuff
[h=1]Dead snake found on Christchurch street[/h] [h=2][/h] NICOLE MATHEWSON Last updated 05:00 09/01/2012
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LONG WAY FROM HOME: The snake found on a suburban Christchurch street.
A Christchurch man was shocked to discover the well-preserved body of a brown snake on a suburban street.
Somerfield resident Kris Kaan was walking with a friend along Cashmere's Ashgrove Tce on Thursday evening when they came across the unusual find.
"Me and my mate were just walking along. We saw a lady standing on the side of the road looking down at the ground."
Kaan's friend saw the snake first, and he heard him ask the woman "is that real".
"Then I looked down and just thought it was some rubber snake.
"I kept saying `is this real, is this a joke'."
The snake was at least a metre long and was tan-brown in colour, with a yellowish belly, he said.
"My mate picked it up and I touched it. It was definitely a snake."
They saw "small fangs" and "bits of goo" on the snake.
"It was quite fat, but the head was quite small."
It appeared to have been run over, Kaan said.
"Its body was still quite pliable. We looked closer and could see the scales and see where the tyre had gone over."
Kaan said he had never seen a snake in real life before, and finding one in Christchurch was "weird".
"It was just bizarre. I honestly didn't believe it was a real snake; it took me a while until I touched it."
A Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry spokeswoman said MAF was aware of the find, but the snake was not a biosecurity risk as it had been preserved in fluid.
It was not alive or recently dead, she said.
- © Fairfax NZ News
