https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Two groups of walkers in Austria were met with an unwelcome surprise on Saturday after stumbling across giant snakes while out for a stroll. https://www.thelocal.at/20160816/walkers-come-face-to-face-with-two-giant-snakes-in-austria Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:27:43 +0200 walkers-come-face-to-face-with-two-giant-snakes-in-austria A 51-year-old man decided to take his one-meter long python named 'Susi' for a walk on Friday to Vienna's largest amusement park. https://www.thelocal.at/20160612/taking-a-walk-with-susi-the-snake Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:50:30 +0200 taking-a-walk-with-susi-the-snake A poisonous spitting cobra is on the loose near Vienna after escaping from a container shipped from Indonesia to a warehouse just south of the Austrian capital. https://www.thelocal.at/20160531/venomous-snake-on-the-loose-near-vienna Tue, 31 May 2016 14:54:48 +0200 venomous-snake-on-the-loose-near-vienna A seven year old boy was rushed to hospital on Thursday after being bitten by a poisonous snake in Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20160513/poisonous-viper-bites-six-year-old-in-austria Fri, 13 May 2016 14:02:50 +0200 poisonous-viper-bites-six-year-old-in-austria A gardener from Krems in Lower Austria had a nasty shock when a snake emerged from her groceries on the back seat of the car as she was driving home. https://www.thelocal.at/20150518/woman-buys-snake-with-box-of-bananas Mon, 18 May 2015 13:28:29 +0200 woman-buys-snake-with-box-of-bananas A 53-year-old woman who was feeding the snakes at a private reptile zoo in Carinthia was bitten by a rattlesnake and taken to hospital in Klagenfurt on Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20150210/woman-bitten-by-rattlesnake-at-zoo Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:08:00 +0100 woman-bitten-by-rattlesnake-at-zoo Five firemen in Steyr, Upper Austria, were called out to capture what locals believed was a dangerous snake spotted on a path by the river Enns. https://www.thelocal.at/20141126/firemen-called-out-to-catch-pumpkin-snake Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:46:24 +0100 firemen-called-out-to-catch-pumpkin-snake A 19-year-old man from Upper Austria had a scare when he was driving home to Wels on Saturday night - as a 40 cm long reptile crawled out of a vent in his car and slithered across the passenger door. https://www.thelocal.at/20140929/snake-in-car-scares-austrian-driver Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:52:26 +0200 snake-in-car-scares-austrian-driver