{"id":644261,"date":"2026-06-17T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:46:10","slug":"snake-takes-surprise-trip-to-scarborough-seaside-in-car-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644261\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake takes surprise trip to Scarborough seaside in car engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bigsby said it was a struggle to get the snake out of the car as it had wrapped itself around something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a first for me, we&#8217;ve had them in dustbins, hedgerows, riverbanks, footpaths but we&#8217;ve never had one in a car engine bay before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The snake has been cared for at Bigsby&#8217;s rescue centre since and its owner will collect it on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was a &#8220;beautiful snake, no signs of aggression, no bad moods, no nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a lovely, lovely snake.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bigsby said it was a struggle to get the snake out of the car as it had wrapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-644261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}