Boa In My Bonnet

We’ve all heard the phrase a bee in your bonnet… well mechanics at a Bosch car servicing garage in Oxford got more than they bargained for when lifting the bonnet of a customer’s mini.

The Mini Cooper was booked in for an MOT, Wayne Hunt the Bosch service technician carrying out the test put his hand under the bonnet to find the safety release, as he has done a number of times before and felt something rather unfamiliar. Upon opening the bonnet he discovered a five foot long, five inch thick Boa constrictor.

Wayne said: “We immediately called the RSPCA to collect the snake, since it didn’t belong to the customer and we had no idea who owned it. We also wanted to make sure we didn’t harm the reptile in removing it, as we’re more used to working on brakes than snakes!”

“The snake was dealt with properly and luckily it had done no damage to the car. The RSPCA told us that it looked thinner than it normally would, which could meant it had been living under the bonnet for a while. In all the years I have worked as a vehicle technician, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

This isn’t the first time a Bosh technician has found something alien residing under the hood of a car. Back in May a technician in Lancashire literally found a bee in the bonnet of a Peugeot 106, where bees had used two of the cylinders in the vehicles engine to build their hive.