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<\/p>\nAn escaped snake has been rescued after it was spotted on top of a car bonnet in Scarborough.<\/p>\n
The corn snake, which has since been claimed by its owner, is thought to have travelled around 17 miles (27km) from its owner’s house in Bridlington on 13 June.<\/p>\n
Dave Bigsby, from Lilly’s Reptile Rescue Centre, was called to retrieve the snake and said he thought it had fancied a bit of “sightseeing” he said he thought he had “heard how good Scarborough was and fancied a bit of fresh air for the day”.<\/p>\n
It is thought the reptile had escaped from his owner’s house in Bridlington and slithered inside a nearby car and was unknowingly transported up the coast to Scarborough.<\/p>\n
Bigsby said when he arrived at the car there was no sign of the snake.<\/p>\n
“They showed me an image that they’d taken, and I identified the snake as a corn snake.”<\/p>\n
He said they had to wait for the driver to turn up to find out where the creature had hidden itself.<\/p>\n
“The driver came back to his car eventually and he opened the engine bay up and the snake was sat on the right-hand side above the strut spring.”<\/p>\n
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The snake was eventually removed from the car’s engine bay [Dave Bigsby]<\/p>\n
Bigsby said it was a struggle to get the snake out of the car as it had wrapped itself around something.<\/p>\n
“I had hold of its tail from the rear of the snake, kept hold of it for two hours before it finally gave up and came out,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bigsby has responded to a number of different incidents since starting the rescue centre in 2024 but has never removed one from a car before.<\/p>\n
“This is a first for me, we’ve had them in dustbins, hedgerows, riverbanks, footpaths but we’ve never had one in a car engine bay before,” he said.<\/p>\n
The snake has been cared for at Bigsby’s rescue centre since and its owner will collect it on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He said it was a “beautiful snake, no signs of aggression, no bad moods, no nothing”.<\/p>\n
“It’s a lovely, lovely snake.”<\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, catch up with the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An escaped snake has been rescued after it was spotted on top of a car bonnet in Scarborough.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10149,149223,229055,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-497591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-car","tag-corn-snake","tag-dave-bigsby","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}