New Year's Eve rocket meets swan: group saves animal from the road - drivers are outraged
Created: 05/01/2023 05:00
By: Felicitas Bogner
Rescue operation: Maria Kastenmüller brought the animal from the bridge to the Isar.
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A swan was hit by a New Year's Eve rocket while flying over the Isar Bridge.
The animal crashed onto the B427.
A group of revelers bravely intervened.
Bad Tölz
– Fireworks and their effects on animals were discussed controversially and often emotionally before New Year's Eve.
An incident on New Year's Eve in Bad Tölz shows that there is a reason for the debate.
On Sunday at around 12:20 a.m., a swan that wanted to fly over the Isar bridge on the B472 was hit by a firework rocket - the bird was lucky in the misfortune.
Bad Tölz: The swan is hit by a fireworks rocket on New Year's Eve and falls on the main road
“I went to the Isar Bridge with my family and friends to watch the fireworks.
About 20 minutes after midnight, a friend saw a bird crash and fall onto the street," Maria Kastenmüller reports to our newspaper.
The group made their way to the animal.
"It quickly turned out that it was a slightly larger bird.
The swan fell on the median and ran back and forth in irritation,” the Tölzerin describes the scenario.
She then tried to stop the traffic so that the swan didn't get any worse between the cars that roared past him on the left and right.
Maria Kastenmüller and friends released the swan on the banks of the Isar.
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Driver annoyed by the rescue operation: "Sneak away from the creature"
"Then I took the swan by its body and neck to carry it off the street," explains the 28-year-old.
"He was totally scared and hissed." She had the courage to do so, among other things, because she works as a non-medical practitioner for animals.
"So I know how to deal with a frightened animal." Kastenmüller and her friends carried the swan down the stairs to the Isar and released it into the water on the bank.
"I don't think he had any physical injuries.
At least he could flap his wings, walk and swim without any problems,” says the animal naturopath.
"When I put him in the water, he immediately swam away."
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
Driver annoyed by the rescue operation: "Sneak away from the creature"
Kastenmüller was annoyed that some drivers did not show any understanding for their courageous intervention.
"A man in the car yelled 'Sneak away from the creature' and even insulted us because we blocked the street on our own," she says, adding: "Yes, we shouldn't have just been allowed to go out onto the street.
But the swan wouldn't have gotten away on its own." And anyway: "It was a miracle that he fell between the lanes and didn't land directly in front of a moving car."
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Rescuer after the incident now fireworks opponent "That has no relation"
Even if the swan got off lightly on New Year's Eve - Maria Kastenmüller is now a strict opponent of fireworks.
"I didn't shoot any myself, but yes, I was out on the bridge to see it too.
It's nice." In the future, however, she will do without it.
"When you experience so closely what can happen to animals as a result, what fear the swan must have felt and what must have happened to him... It's simply out of proportion," says the Tölzer native with conviction.
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