Don't bite off more than you can chew

Vipera berus
(Photo by Benny Trapp)

Even God took a day off: we call it the Sabbath.  Yet humans tend to think they can go and go, get and get, take and take without dire consequences.

Humans aren’t the only ones.  A viperine snake was recently stuck with an oversized fish in its mouth.  It had attempted to swallow a spiny specimen that just wouldn’t go down.  The spines had lodged in the snake’s esophagus, which then hoisted the viperine upon its own greedy petard.

At that prickly point, along came an empathetic human.  He managed to gently dislodge the fish spines from the snake’s mouth – just as one would remove a hook from a fish’s mouth - just as people seek to remove the Serpent’s sting from their own lives...

Resources

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/snake-choking-invasive-fish-size-065828441.html