{"id":380753,"date":"2025-12-30T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380753\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:32:10","slug":"python-hitches-ride-in-unsuspecting-drivers-car-across-queensland-nsw-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380753\/","title":{"rendered":"Python hitches ride in unsuspecting driver’s car across Queensland-NSW border"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coastal carpet python has hitched a ride across the Queensland and NSW border after coiling itself into the crevice of a car.<\/p>\n

It joined the nine-hour \ufeffride from Toowoomba to the Central Coast for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

The discovery was revealed when Anthony stopped at the Australian Reptile Park \ufeffand asked for help to remove the snake.<\/p>\n

\"snake\"\/Python hitches ride in unsuspecting driver’s car across Queensland-NSW border (9News)<\/p>\n

It was identified as a \ufeff1.2-metre coastal carpet python.<\/p>\n

Australian Reptile Park head of reptiles Dylan Wallis said he has never seen a snake travel that distance before.<\/p>\n

“\ufeffWe’ve seen many snakes in cars, but never one that has travelled that far from another state,” he said.<\/p>\n

The snake had been hiding on top of the car’s fuel tank, which kept it safe from the elements.<\/p>\n

“Right next to him are the turning wheels and, of course, that creates a lot of ventilation to keep him nice and cool,” Wallis said.<\/p>\n

\"snake\"\/Python hitches ride in unsuspecting driver’s car across Queensland-NSW border (9News)<\/p>\n

It was safely extracted as experts went underneath the car to push the python out. \ufeff<\/p>\n

It will be shipped back to Queensland.\ufeff<\/p>\n

“He’s gonna do the entire journey\ufeff, but this time he’s not gonna be sitting on top of the fuel tank,” Wallis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coastal carpet python has hitched a ride across the Queensland and NSW border after coiling itself into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-380753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}