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RUNAWAY BOA CONSTRICTOR TAKES A NAP IN THE ENGINE AFTER ESCAPING FROM NEIGHBOUR’S HOUSE FIREFIGHTERS in Bordeaux extracted a 2m boa constrictor from a car after the runaway snake fell asleep
in the engine. The unnamed snake was initially seen making its escape down rue du Commandant-Charcotin in the Caudéran area, but by the time fire fighters arrived, it had sought shelter by
climbing into the engine of Mario Poularas’ car via the gearbox. Mr Poularas told _Sud Ouest_ newspaper that he was relieved not have needed his vehicle on the morning that fire fighters
knocked on his door to tell him that a boa constrictor had fallen asleep inside it. “I don’t know what I would have done if I’d seen the animal in the passenger compartment,” he said. Boa
constrictors are not venomous, but are still, as _Sud Ouest_ put it, “not cool to find while changing from first”. Fire fighters took half an hour to extract the animal, during which time
its owner realised it had escaped after he left the vivarium door open. Photo:wikimedia/marcodede
