Surprise: A man finds a 10-foot python hidden in the engine of his car

Specialists of the Commission for the Conservation of Wildlife and Fisheries of Florida (FWC), in the United States, removed a three-meter-long python from a Ford Mustang car that had found a hiding place next to the engine.

The FWC has posted a photo of the snake coiled on the front of the vehicle on its nets. According to the local TV channel WSVN, the person who owns the Ford Mustang took the vehicle to a workshop in Dania Beach because the light that warns it is there engine problems.

When they opened the hood they discovered it the problem was not mechanical. Gerard Doffay, who helped get the reptile out of the car, told the channel “it was a big snake” as “about 6 meters”, but the FWC statement later indicated that the python was 3 meters, exactly half that. According to Doffay, the snake resisted and at one point there were four people to reduce it.

It is believed that as the Ford Mustang is parked on the street, the snake sneaked in for shelter during the night.

Last August a woman from West Palm Beach, Southeast Florida like Dania Beach, opened her washing machine and saw what looked like a garment with a python print, but when she touched it she realized that it was a real snake. She was “terrified”.

“I was really terrified,” Emily Wisnic told WPEC television, recalling how the snake moved when touched with the hand.

Wisnic, who is from Connecticut and has lived in Florida for less than a year, screamed as loud as she could and, once healed, called the agency that manages the wild animals that invade human spaces, something. relatively common in Florida.

Florida suffers from it Invasion of the Burmese python snake which are located in the Everglades Nature Reserve, a huge swamp located in the south of the state. FWC has been fighting for years against this non-native species and it is not known how it reached the Everglades, where it has wiped out much of the local fauna for its type of food and its ability to reproduce.

These constricting snakes can overcome six meters long and the 100 kilos of weight.