When you are having car trouble, you can always call a cop, especially when the problem is not your spark plugs but a 9-foot-long, 20-pound boa constrictor under your hood.
A woman, who wasn’t identified, called police just after 8 a.m. Thursday when her truck was having engine problems at Zia Road and Camino Carlos Rey.
Santa Fe police Lt. Louis Carlos and an animal control officer responded and found the serpent wrapped around the engine, said police spokeswoman Celina Espinoza. It’s unknown how it got there and whose it is.
The officers’ reaction?
“I’m sure, amazement. It’s not something you see every day,” Espinoza said. “He (Carlos) pulled it out with his hands,” she said, adding that he knew it was not venomous. The snake is now at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society.
“We had a lot of fun with the stray python today – everyone wanted to confront their phobias and handle the snake,” the shelter wrote on its Facebook page. “The snake is likely a young female and probably slithered her way into the car’s engine looking for warmth.”
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| An animal control officer wrestles a 9-foot long boa constrictor that stalled a Santa Fe woman's car this morning. (Santa Fe Police Department) |
The woman who found the snake under the hood of her pickup lives only a few blocks from where her truck stalled, so it must have entered the truck in that area, the shelter added.
The boa constrictor suffered minor injuries but is doing fine, according to the shelter.
Anyone who thinks this might be his or her lost snake should call the shelter’s admissions desk at 983-4309, ext. 606.
(Albuquerque Journal - July 10, 2014)
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