In a grocery store in Thailand, a four-meter-long python made itself comfortable. The snake was discovered by customers in the corner of a 7-Eleven market this weekend in the city of Chonburi.
There she lay - reasonably peaceful - in front of a fridge with drinks. The python was then put into a bag by professional snake-catchers and released back into nature. A video showing the scene spread hundreds of thousands on the internet.
In Thailand it happens again and again that snakes appear in buildings. In the capital Bangkok alone, emergency services had to move out more than 30,000 times last year to collect smaller and larger animals. The snakes are then released normally.
That a full-grown Python appears in a supermarket, however, is quite a rarity. In return, cats and dogs are regularly discovered there, who like to escape from the heat in the air-conditioned rooms. Chonburi is located east of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand.