- Ross Price found a python under his friend James Hand's car Feb 1 in Davie, FL
- Called police who took 15 min to extricate it as it slithered farther into engine compartment
- Officer Tony Bernardo later held the 11-ft python, which has since been given over to a care company, in a video
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Officer Tony Bernardo and two others worked to extricate an 11-ft python from a college student's car in Davie, Florida. The snake slithered into the car's engine compartment
A Florida college student found an unwelcome surprise hiding under his friend's car - an 11-foot python.
Ross Price and his roommate, James Hand, called police on February 1 after an exterminator couldn't come at the late hour in Davie, about 25 miles north of Miami.
Officer Tony Bernardo and two other officers arrived at the scene.
They did battle with the slithering python, which tried to snake its way farther and farther into the Toyota Camry's engine compartment, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
After a 15-minute ordeal, the snake was extricated.
Price, a 24-year-old student at Nova Southeastern University, told the Sentinel: 'You just don't expect something like that wandering around your house.'
Hand, 25, said: 'What if it had crawled up into my car and made its way inside as I was driving?'
After a 15-minute ordeal, the snake was extricated, Officer Bernardo later appeared in a video holding up the python. Davie Police said the snake, which has since been turned over to a care company, was most likely a pet
Officer Bernardo later appeared in a video holding up the python.
The video shows him playfully wrangling with the python in what appears to be an office room.
Davie Police said the snake, which has since been turned over to a care company, was most likely a pet and it was not a Burmese Python.
