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LEIGH Montagna has played countless memorable clashes over his esteemed 232-game career.
But his bizarre antics on Sunday won’t be remembered as his finest performance.
The star St Kilda midfielder was in his garden on the weekend, moving a few trees he had recently cut down and putting them in the hard rubbish. In the process of moving, he spotted a “snake in the corner of my laneway” against the fence.
Or so he thought.
A nervy Montagna — a “city slicker” not a country boy, by his own admission — tried to ring his local council to have the “snake” removed, but no one answered as it was a Sunday.
Montagna then searched for local snake handlers online and found one, who then agreed to leave his family lunch and attend the call-out for a healthy $180 fee.
But when the handler walked into the backyard, Montagna’s shame surpassed his relief.
“He (the handler) has gone over, he’s gone to flick it out and it’s a sandal,” an embarrassed Montagna told Triple M.
Yep. The “snake” was a snakeskin sandal.
“My wife comes over and she goes, ‘well why didn’t you throw a rock at it or something’? I said ‘I’m not going to throw a rock at a snake and look to see if it’s going to move or anything’!”
To rub further salt into the wounds of a humiliated Montagna, the handler still asked for the agreed payment of $180, despite the botched rescue.
“I got stitched up — 180 bucks for the snake handler on his Sunday to come over and pick a sandal out of my garden,” Montagna said.
But the veteran Saint’s far-from-finest hour wasn’t over yet.
“Then the wife asked ‘who’s snake skin sandal is it’?”
A $180 bill and a female, snakeskin sandal that didn’t belong to his wife.
Montagna certainly had a lot to answer for over dinner that night.
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