Santa Fe woman’s truck trouble was nine foot Burmese python

abqjournal.com SANTA FE – When you are having car trouble, you can always call a cop, especially when the problem is not your spark plugs but a 9-foot-long, 20-pound Burmese python under your hood. A woman, who wasn’t identified, called police just after 8 a.m. Thursday when her truck was having engine problems at Zia Road and Camino Carlos Rey. Santa Fe police Lt. Louis Carlos and an animal control officer responded and found the serpent wrapped around the engine, said police spokeswoman Celina Espinoza. It’s unknown how it got there and whose it is. The officers’ reaction? “I’m sure, amazement. It’s not something you see every day,” Espinoza said. “He (Carlos) pulled it out with his hands,” she said, adding that he knew it was not venomous. The snake is now at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society. “We had a lot of fun with the stray python today – everyone wanted to confront their phobias and handle the snake,” the shelter wrote on its Facebook page. “The snake is likely a young female and probably slithered her way into the car’s engine looking for warmth.” to read more: abqjournal.com